Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Stanwyck found the world almost too much with her. At a London premiere she got separated from handsome husband Robert Taylor by a mob of worshipful women. Police had to rescue the pair, ride horses through the crowd to make way. Miss Stanwyck fainted. Taylor got a black eye. "It was the first time since our marriage," said Miss Stanwyck, "that Robert and I have been parted." Miss Stanwyck was doubling as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, which sometimes ran her observations on Page One. Sample: "The British love to tell you how awful things...
...female clerk of Georgia's Supreme Court stepped out into the mob of newsmen and politicos milling in a dark hallway of the State Capitol. Trembling with excitement, she squeaked: "No shoving, please." When the mob shoved anyway, a man shouted anxiously: "Don't shove. It's 5-to-2 for Thompson...
...hundreds of pounds. "This really great man," said FitzGerald, "thinks more about his bowels and nerves than about the Laureate wreath he was born to inherit." He was almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove the birth of anything bigger than a mouse...
Crackling machine guns, mounted-police charges and streams of icy water from fire hoses failed to halt the mob. Forty were injured...
...Britain did not suffer alone: northern Europe was also caught between intense cold and coal shortages. The Netherlands closed its schools. In orderly Copenhagen a mob attacked a coal train. Berlin counted 150 deaths from cold and hunger in recent weeks. Eire and Northern Ireland felt the pinch of Britain's troubles; several industries closed, and domestic gas supplies were...