Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rally parade of last night was like the rolling stone. It picked up a little momentum en route but not very much moss. Only when the marchers finally drew up in front of the Indoor Athletic Building did imperceptible accretions to the fringe of the mob begin to gather...
...partisan personalities were also in ample evidence, responding some what less to the cheerleaders entreaties for noise. Eight amateur psychologists were grimly scribbling notes on "mob psychology" for the next tutorial session of Charles F. Mosteller, lecturer on Social Relations...
...about all the job requires. But whoever makes up the cast really is a nonessential, for the players seem to have been selected more for physical appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...
Policemen who tried to break up the mob met with a hall of empty beer cans hurled from nearby windows and roof-tops. One cop was mashed in the face with a beer bottle, as the disturbance with a beer bottle, as the disturbance spread. Private lawns and homes, parked cars, and the austere old Taft were hit by the celebrants before they went home...
...demonstration started, Yard police said, when a group of about 50 youths...boys and girls returning from a nearby high school dance through the Yard, paused to shout at lighted windows. A proctor in Strans Hall, attempting to remonstrate with the group, was nearly set upon by the mob. Yard police claimed...