Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night little Emperor Haile Selassie talked long with his white advisers, prayed longer to his dusky Coptic God. At dawn the lean Semitic Negroes began moving down out of the eucalyptus forests toward the palace. The guards let 5,000 into the palace grounds. While the Emperor watched the mob from a window, his Chancellor Haile Wolde-Roufe read out in the Amharic tongue Ethiopia's first effort at a modern mobilization order...
Henry Wilcoxon plays Richard the Lion Hearted with a sort of mediaeval gusto that seems to get across pretty well. Riding his horse through countless mob scenes bellowing orders and slugging the incompetent, he achieves a good portrait of lusty leadership...
...Oxford, Miss., a judge dismissed a jury debating the case of Negro Ellwood Higginbotham, accused of murdering a white man. After awaiting the jury's verdict for more than 24 hours, an impatient mob had hauled Negro Higginbotham out of jail, hanged him to a tree. ¶In Manhattan, detectives arrested Gustave Freeman when he stepped off the S. S. Ile de France, found in his trunk 100,000 French National Lottery tickets, apparently forged...
...second cardinal of New York, the younger one followed along as chancellor, monsignor, auxiliary bishop. During the War Bishop Hayes was head of all U. S. Catholic chaplains. Year after Cardinal Farley's death in 1918, Patrick Hayes was made an arch bishop. Had not an angry Irish mob from St. Patrick's Cathedral stoned the nearby Union Club in 1920 because it was flying a British flag, Archbishop Hayes might have been raised directly to the purple. But he got his red hat in 1924 and the Pope saluted him as caro fratello ("dear little brother...
...mob of touts, thugs, politicians and demimondaines has for its sphere the mansion rented by Remy Marco (John Harrington). Marco has been a brewer for some years, but only legally since 1933. It is consequently of some embarrassment to him when his faithful retainer Mike (Joseph Sweeney) discovers upon arriving at Saratoga that an upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked...