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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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These statements were among several alleged confessions by various defendants to varying participation in the mob-slaying, and introduced today into the murder trial of 28 cab drivers and three business men. They were introduced over defense objections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defendants Name Slayer of Negro In South Carolina Shotgun Killing; Senate Votes Full Foreign Relief | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...fencing up the open range. Perhaps the most overworked angle involved the arrival of the U.S. Cavalry with bright blue uniforms and waving flags to patch things up when a crisis impends. Interspersed among the cliches are a number of bedroom passages involving Jennifer and Gregory, a bunch of mob scenes in the grand old DeMille tradition, and here and there a few small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there is perhaps the bloodiest climax in a long, long time-heroine and hero shoot each other full of holes, only to suddenly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...story like that was too good to leave in the hands of Havana's 22 dailies, so a covey of U.S. newsmen flew in to take over. When Satira was taken aboard the yacht to "reenact" the shooting (before a perspiring judge and a mob of curious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison," and started down the stairs to sell her famous nickel-plated hatchets. The students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars which she struck to the floor with indignation. When the uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theatre, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Following Cadogan's broadcast, the Harvard Radio Workshop will emerge from its winter hibernation to present William Saroyan's "Hello Out There," a study of a rapist awaiting his fate at the bands of a lynch mob...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN Will Broadcast Cadogan Talk from New Lecture Hall | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

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