Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their drunken friends had forgotten to bring their costumes. In a gesture of respectability the police took their names, but did not bother to turn them in. At the end of the parade, the float was pulled over and the girls grabbed by gallant or lecherous onlookers in the mob...
...want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary...
...Death appears, as in a medieval morality play, gives him a skull mask and persuades him to be a salesman. In the guise of Science, Santa Claus successfully sells "knowledge" now, not understanding. Something awful happens to his customers, however. Santa Claus then has to face a defrauded, angry mob...
...before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept 300 cops busy untangling traffic and quelling the mob. Pennsylvania's President George McClelland suspended three riot leaders, said sternly: "With thousands of veterans crying for a chance at a college education, there is no room on the nation's campuses for the current epidemic of disorders...
...impressive seven-piece band, a yowling mob of over a hundred undergraduates ran through College cheers and songs for nearly an hour...