Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though he may detest it in fact. For a degree lecturing is easier than tutorial, yet for an ideal some individual consideration is superior to none. Thus the C man wants a compromise between the two; he does not object to tutorial if at the same time...
...important first night is a combination of theatrical gamble and social sure thing. Cafe Society, theatre people, Bohemians, middle-class Johnny-on-the-spots-the toughest theatre crowd in the world to please-are the backbone of every Broadway first-night audience. An hour before curtain time, a mob of babbling celebrity-chasers and autograph hounds, aged ten to 70, starts lining up outside the theatre entrance. As. taxis and limousines roll up, the audience's audience gurgles and gasps ("It's Elsa Maxwell!", "It's Freddie March!", "There's Dorothy Parker!"), then surges forward...
Weinberg, one of the key men in the policy racket mob of the late Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer, was found dying at his home on the outskirts of the city. He was rushed to a hospital but died from a bullet wound in his head before the regained consciousness
...mob of unemployed New Zealanders poured down Queen Street, Auckland, smashing windows, looting and hooting. Three hundred were arrested, 130 wounded, $500,000 worth of property ruined. One day last week a less unruly but no less discontented mob-this time, businessmen-poured into Auckland to apply pressure in their own ways. The 1932 mob wanted things they had no money for; last week's mob wanted the right to buy things they had money for. In that turnabout was summarized the New Zealand revolution of the last three years...
When he read of the killing of the truck driver by a "mob" yesterday, Sears rushed through a long distance call to his father. He begged for permission to ride with the next truck into Boston, Sears senior who often drives his trucks himself, denied his son's plea to "get in on it," and his mother ordered him to stay out of any strike mix ups in Cambridge. "If I can get some support I won't stay out of anything," he proclaimed...