Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well: when it came to backchat Louise was no match for her. Once Nell's coach was held up in Oxford by a threatening mob who thought Louise was inside. Nell put her curly head out the window, cried: "Be civil, good people, be civil! I am not she. I am the Protestant whore." The mob cheered, let her depart in peace...
Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: "Why don't they eat cake?" Her brief (298-page) biography is a partisan but appealing argument in favor of Marie Antoinette's humanity...
...saved all their lives if he had agreed to run away in time. Too late Marie and Count Fersen persuaded him to escape. After they were captured at Varennes and brought back to Paris, Marie and her lover said goodbye for the last time. (He was killed by a mob in Sweden, in 1810.) To the bitter end Marie Antoinette played out the rest of her part becomingly. When she mounted the overcrowded platform of the guillotine, she stepped on somebody's foot, begged his pardon with her last words...
...three brothers only Hugh stayed with the Sea Witch till the end. Will was lost in a storm off the Horn; Roger, after as many farewell performances as an opera star or matador, was finally forced into retirement when a California mob tried to burn him at the stake, crippled him for life. Hugh, once in love with Mary, then with his figurehead, finally with the ship herself, stuck by her even after she was sold into the guano trade, saw the last of her as she sank, burning, into the Pacific. In ten crowded years she had outlived...
...panic is over, says Seldes, for "the boom was our panic. . . . America in 1928, and the first months of 1929. was a mob. . . . The responsible leaders, the statesmen and the financiers and the industrialists, were paralyzed, precisely as the British Government was paralyzed in July and August of 1914. The situations are almost parallels. In each case, a disaster threatened; in each case, authority refused to check the force of events lest the very movement of checking should bring on catastrophe. The memoirs of Grey of Fallodon match the apologies made for Coolidge and Hoover." Calling the 1929 crash...