Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of these numerous disadvantages, the editors have come to feel a certain attachment to the depressing place. To this day each graduating 'Poon man takes a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
Just then I happened to run into Mary near by and casually informed her what had happened. Her reaction was decisive. She banged her cap on her head, her blue eyes blazed, and she strode towards the milling mob to set upon the British sailors singlehanded. But unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the sailors had disappeared. And a highly frustrated Mary seethed all over the place...
...miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while the Duke sat inside beside the dead body of his wife. Once he made his way home from the Tower of London through howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through 60 miles...
...incites a mob composed largely of his men to lynch honest Jim Kinsaid. The scene is very dark indeed, but Kid Cagney appears out of nowhere and throws all of his fire power on the side of law and order. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bad men fall right and left before the Kid's guns. Cagney turns out to be Kincaid's son. The other son fiddles with legal procedures while Cagney fights. Cagney naturally wins out, romantically and otherwise. Audience and Bogart both lose...
...owner of the Fun Fair also owns dance halls and nightclubs, manages a mob of burglars and gunmen. He teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling...