Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went the speech-while outside the long lines of police, hands joined, resisted and almost sank beneath wave on wave of mob. The priest promised a (roughly) 60? dollar, praised the President for having the "intestinal fortitude" to fight Morgan. At a mention of Al Smith (see above) the crowd jeered, booed...
...father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call out the militia, florid Governor James Rolph Jr. snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail...
...town in my flivver roadster and passed out the word: 'We're going to have a lynching at the jail at 11 o'clock tonight.' . . . Mostly I went to the speakeasies and rounded up the gang there. That is why so many of the mob were drunk...
...knockout at Sedan. He arrives the night before the battle, just as the German lines are closing in, is summoned by the Emperor and given an important missive to the Empress in Paris. After the battle he gets through the German lines, helps rescue the Empress from a mob at the Tuileries and gets her safely to England. Day before the Germans bottle up Paris, back comes Jonathan. He survives the siege and is still wandering around looking things over when the Communists seize Paris and him with it. With increasing fatalism he watches the storming of the city...
...lynching, its advantages and prospects, have brought forth the natural reaction from the press and rostrum, so that the air is quivering with an unusually heavy load of resounding phrases and rhythmic sentiments. The preservation of law and order, respect for the customary procedures of justice, condemnation of mob violence, have all been dragged out of the oratorical closet and fitted to the bow. And very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer...