Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange doings in France. Thus, in a dispatch dated July 6, 1789: "By intelligence from Paris . . . we learn that peace is far from being established in that Metropolis." Two days later: "Two German regiments were then brought out, which roused the indignation of the national troops, who . . . joined the mob. A dreadful havock was the consequence...
...parish church in small Konigsbrunn, northwest of Vienna in Germany's Ostmark, the white-&-gold banners of the papacy fluttered in the Sunday morning sunlight. The flags showed that a cardinal was within. In the church sounded the peaceful mutter of the Mass. Outside, a mob of bumpkins grew. As the Mass neared its end, with its "Go, it is finished," shouts came from the mob...
...church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. As he raised his arms in bewildered alarm, the mob let go a volley of eggs and potatoes. A schoolteacher shouted: "Herr Cardinal, your hands are sticky with the blood of Holzweber and Planetta!"* Someone swung an umbrella at the Cardinal, knocked off his biretta. By that time his chauffeur, his clothes torn during a mauling by the crowd, had managed to bring the Cardinal's automobile up to the church...
...airliner headed for Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...been ascertained. But when Mexico City heard the news it was inconsolably angry. A vegetable vendor yelled, "The gringos killed him!" A Mexican newspaper printed dark hints which added up to charges of sabotage. The Mexican Ambassador in Washington called these accusations "imbecile." But in Mexico City a mob of students stoned a U. S. school and a cordon of police was thrown around the U. S. Embassy. And when the U. S. bomber bearing the flier's body reached the Mexican capital, that too was pelted with stones...