Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a students' demonstration for educational reforms in Majlis (Parliament) Square. Provocateurs mingled with the demonstrators, gave them new slogans about bread. The students broke into the Parliament building, smashed furniture before the police evicted them. Then what had been a crowd of demonstrators slowly turned into a mob...
...month about Radcliffe, and not many from Harvard are complimentary. And yet May rolls around with those Harvard engagements. At any Crimson dance Radcliffe has a larger delegation than any other of the popular supply centers. At football games Radcliffe girls are a good part of the tweed-skirted mob. So they get angry, across the Common, when people say bad things about 'Cliffettes...
Beau Jack's patrons expected nothing but fun for their money. They held board meetings, appeared in a body every time Little Beau fought, trooped to his dressing room to hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust...
...with purling brooks." She says: "I've had to do my writing on the edges of card tables, on trains, in boarding houses. I seem to be able to write best in places like China where the entire household wanders in and out and there's a mob howling at the gates...
...Mob or no mob, Ethel Vance "sweats blood" when she writes ("I simply hate it"). She is sensible, too, about her abilities. "I don't try to imitate genius," she assured New York Times interviewer Robert van Gelder. "Why should I? I work terribly hard to tell a story effectively, and do a good, tight construction job, because I can do that much; I can be a craftsman...