Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Government toyed with Windmiller Honnef's proposition, nearly six million Germans were drawing a dole of $13 per week. At Waltershausen, when efforts were made to apply a recent dole reduction of 10%, furious dole-drawers rioted, wounded seven policemen. Police fired on the mob, killed two, wounded twelve, restored order...
...Blockaded? the Presi dent and his family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty by America and ... I'd be damned if I'd do it again...
...begin with and to be quite frank we are a bit disappointed. Did the mob surge into sacred dormitory corridors causing shrieks and terror as it passed? Not exactly. Stray delegations wandered about on the first floor, and even a trifle abashed walked out; only the noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows...
Spring apart, we do not approve of riots. Mob psychology and all, we can find no justification for rocking private automobiles, and derailing street cars, burning theatre gates and showering with eggs the exponents of the law. It looks childish to us, to say the least, and although the sentiments of the old lady appalled at the nature of American youth when "of such are Chicago gangsters"--is perhaps far fetched in the light of a very sudden spring day, still American youth must be in dire need of action or excitement or occupation or something if it can rouse...
...whole procedure. We are acutely aware of the fact that the cruise up Shepard street and the planting of the red lantern--later much multiplied by permission or poetic license--must have been somewhat in the nature of discovery number two, and that the state of the mob's psychology in the middle of the quadrangle must have been much akin to that of the CRIMSON reporter who found himself crossing the Radcliffe Yard not long ago and emerged on the other side with gratifying editorial comments on the subject of how times do change. But we trust that...