Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
Marianna, Fla., Oct. 26--A mob which seized a negro accused of assaulting and murdering a white woman from an Alabama jail today played hide and seek with Florida officers tonight...
...than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that manners are important, a real asset and part of your equipment...
...indeed was the prophet in a nasty mood, and he rose in his wrath and an old dirty tunic before his new people. And he raised his right arm to silence the mob, and incidentally; to keep the tunic from falling...
...cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen mob of farmers watched as an auctioneer sold the herd to a stranger...