Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the litter bearers reached a room in the imperial palace. Yellow-faced and bright-eyed with fever, the poet thought of the names the mob had yelled at him, decided that they were appropriate. With death staring him in the face, he looked back over his life...
...Chambery, in France, the train stopped. A mob formed. Word went round that the train was carrying home the Blue Division (Spaniards who fought with the Germans against Russia). With iron rods, clubs, stones, bottles, the French went to work on the passengers...
From a building in the disciplinary area of Indiana's Ft. Benjamin Harrison last week rushed an irate mob of G.I. prisoners. They snatched up the whitewashed boulders lining the paths and flower beds and rushed the guards. Suddenly, th compound became a battlefield...
...Eisenhower and Omar Bradley turned up together at the Prince of Wales Theater for a revue called Strike It Again. They got a thunderous ovation. Leaving the theater, the generals were confronted by a shouting mob. Said General Ike: "If all these people want to see me, I'm going to get out on the running board and let them."* He did (see cut) while Scotland Yard stood agape. After supper at Giro's (where General Ike had the first dance with his pretty WAG secretary, Lieut. Kay Summersby), the party moved back to Bradley's suite...
Next the sailors, seconded by a growing mob of civilians, stampeded the Government liquor stores, which had been shut tight as a V-E-day precaution. They smashed windows, passed out cases of liquor, wines, beer. Expropriated liquor sold for $1 a bottle or was simply given away. Said a policeman: "They were drinking whiskey by the case." They kept drinking, with occasional pauses for pillage, all night...