Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, some 30,000 citizens hung on the ropes. The crowd on the streets shouted and sang hymns. Women were knocked over, children screamed. When the services were over and the casket came out, borne by pallbearers that included Soldier Joe Louis, Swingster Cab Calloway, Tapster Bill Robinson, the mob broke through the police lines to touch the casket for good luck. When the hearse finally moved off everybody was still shouting, and the fallen were picking themselves...
When Norwegians were forbidden to attend a service at Trondheim Cathedral in February, thousands gathered outside the church in the bitter cold. "It was not an unruly mob," said one participant, "but thousands of Christians. We stood outside the cathedral, prevented by police from entering God's house. We were freezing but we could not leave the place. We had to find expression for what we felt. We were silent. Then I heard a voice start Luther's old hymn, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. We all sang and as we stood facing the police...
...Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
...take our places. Two minutes before the curtain went upon the second scene it didn't look as though the various grand marchers would be organized come Michaelmas. But the opera is strange, and everyone seemed to gravitate into place. Not that the audience could have told in that mob if one or two courtiers or kings were on the wrong side of the stage...
...arrived at the stage door an hour before curtain-time, as required. The Metropolitan Theater, designed as it was for movies, does not contain the ultimate in dressing rooms as far as mob scenes are concerned. With a crowd of other supers--all male--from B. U. and the Boston Conservatory of Music, we were herded into a basement room full of electric motors and gen- erators and told to strip. When we had reached suitable stages of deshabille we betook ourselves to the boiler room to receive our apparel...