Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...will be good getting down today. It will be good when the detraining mob in North Station starts singing "Dartmouth's in Town Again." It will be good to hear the long clamant wave of sound that will climax the kickoff and to hear the blunt barking roar that greets a touchdown. The crowd at a football game is always two teased Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer lions. It will be good for a man to feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth...
...Cleveland last week men and women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke...
...bank telephone operator tells another operator about the robbery. A third operator tells someone else. Presently shop-keepers are whispering the details to their customers. One depositor warns another: the amount of the peculations jumps from $100,000 to $500,000, then to $5,000,000. An angry, despairing mob storms the doors of the First National Bank. The assistant cashier performs the alert trick that saves the bank, places the blame for the robbery where it belongs...
...Grand Hotel and other recent films, all the action in Skyscraper Souls takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...