Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with his life." Last week Larwood, a Nottinghamshire miner, turned down all publishing offers until the whole team, now in New Zealand, returns home. "Anyway," he said, "nobody knows what I know...
...Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours...
...double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until the horses came thundering heavily past the stands the first time around could the dense, shouting mob packed against the rail get a clear idea of how the race was going. Colliery Band went past first, with Remus, Kellsboro Jack and Delaneige running close behind...
...interested in mob psychology, the scene of the mighty Red Army at attention, repeating the Soviet oath after General Voroshiloff, will leave a lingering impression. Also the views of Red Square and the Kremlin have their inescapable dramatic impressiveness for anyone who is not oblivious of the importance of what is going on in Moscow...
...railroad running over the old, longer passage to the coast, are solidly behind the Paraguayans who are attempting to retain the Chaco. The usual war hysteria has camouflaged this primary issue and added oil to the flames. Horror stories and parades have done their insidious work on the mob mind, until it has seemed to both nations that nothing but national pride and honor are at stake. While this psychological situation persists, there is no hope for peace. There can be no real armistice until the foreign investors decide that their capital and brains are needed elsewhere. Short of this...