Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's demonstration against war staged by the National Student's League and the resulting display of rowdyism and horseplay is an obvious testimonial to the uselessness of emotional demonstrations to end war. Far from displaying the spirit the National Student's League hoped to inspire, the mob of students that milled around Widener steps heckled the speakers and applauded the successful attempt of certain interlopers...
...continuously active, but no appreciable good for the cause will be gained by marching around displaying placards or shouting anathemas against war, especially in such a conservative stronghold as Harvard. Constructive action in the form of cultivating intelligent thinking will do more than flinging curses at Mars before a mob who enjoys the whole affair as splendid entertainment. (For if a cause is allowed to be ridiculed, it can never hope to inspire confidence...
...power will know whom to punish. . . . "If it requires that I be a sacrifice to get the people to thinking about what is going on, I am willing to be one. . . . "Of course, the future Hitler of America is now in the background merely watching the formation of the mob. "He probably is saying to himself: 'I am their leader, but they don't know it. I will study their moods, so that when the time is ripe I can catch their emotional fervor. Then they will ask me to be their dictator.' "Thrice did the mighty...
...houses of the residential section, up to the base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned and ran for their lives. The wind-driven fire chased one mob toward the wharves, up to the water-edge and over into the Bay. Scores drowned. The fire caught others and incinerated them...
Senorita Elida Dacunda flounced out into the broiling village plaza. In two minutes she had found her father. In five minutes he had gathered a mob. Father Dacunda rushed into the telegraph office, sent a protest to the Provincial Governor at nearby Corrientes, rushed out again. The mob retired to the cooler shadows on the edge of the square...