Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belisle shows some social consciousness in assuming that the distribution of wealth should not be such that anyone must starve. But it is pure mob panic to turn uncritically to the most immediate source of funds. By refusing to cooperate the authorities, of the College have done a great service, and if other colleges lend their support to the provision of bread and circuses, we may be prouder of the stand our own has taken. George S. Pellee...
...Squarely facing the Comptroller was another mighty figure: over $1,000,000,000 tied up in closed banks. Gold exports could be stopped by raising the rediscount rate, the money in suspended banks might eventually be retrieved in part but hoarding by the people was a psychological matter, a mob spirit, dangerous, unreasoning...
...Manchester an angry mob, tired of hurling rocks, took a leaf from the Book of Gandhi. Having rioted for the better part of an hour they squatted in the road, blocked traffic. Unlike orthodox Hindu passive resisters they were not trained to withstand baton blows. After one police charge, Manchester's unemployed began to riot again...
...sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
...Japanese Admiralty received a news flash from Shanghai that a Chinese mob had "brutally beaten" two Japanese women on Yangtzepoo Road at 5:30 p. m. Out ripped Admiralty orders. By 6:30 p. m. the Japanese destroyers Hinoki and Momo were streaking for Shanghai, chief Chinese port. At dawn two more Japanese destroyers followed...