Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ponzi's biggest one-day take had topped $2,000,000 when the Boston Post finally exposed him for what he was : an ex-convict and a confidence man who had borrowed from 40,000 Peters to pay early-bird Pauls. This time the mob that stormed Ponzi's office shouted: "Kill...
Even so, the detail--The New York Times said it was the largest ever assigned to a court case in police history--would be justified if there were no other way to insure the peace. But it takes time for a crowd to develop into a riotous mob. Enough time for a modern police force to reinforce a moderate guard. In fact, an excess of police could do just as much to trigger trouble as to prevent...
...Grease the Guillotine." He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: "Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow." It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying...
...wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth voice out amongst the customers, singing in a style like a kazoo. In four other cities, new-style nightclubs had opened...
Some of the older undergraduates, the letter admitted, had tried to stop the mob. One older boy, "indeed, performed an act of considerable courage when a smoke candle was thought to be endangering a child's life. Except for this," the Vice Chancellor concluded, "nothing can be said in extenuation of what must pass into University history as a shameful episode...