Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro prayed. The other prisoners looked through the barred window at the growing mob, and told him to come look. Spivey talked with his Lord and asked Him to save him. He told the Lord that he was going to tell the truth; suddenly he was no longer scared or worried, and lay back on his bunk and slept. About dark the boys woke him. He looked through the bars at the scene swimming in the hot Southern twilight, a string of 100 cars drawn up before the jail, 700 white men circulating under the trees. Strong in his faith...
...mob hesitated. The men who were likkered up wanted to get it over with. An hour passed while the fire burned down. Some piney-woods lawgiver thought of an answer. Two of the raped woman's sons were there, Elzie and Early. So the crowd said for Elzie and Early to decide...
Blarney's Mob. Like most Australians, Tom Blarney is a weatherbeaten, hearty fellow. He was born on a farm at Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. He did the outdoor things -hunting, shooting, riding, hockey, soccer, rugby, lacrosse-until he was all gristle. He joined the Army, fought Turkey, emerged as Chief of Staff of the A.I.F., then retired to versatile successes, as a police commissioner, businessman, radio commentator. One month before World War II broke out he bought a little seaside home, got married and prepared to go off into the wilds for a honeymoon. He never went. He was called...
Australians call the second A.I.F. "Blarney's Mob." Tom Blarney says he doesn't mind; he's "proud to be associated with such a mob." As the mob marched through the streets of Athens last week, the Athenians stood by cheering and throwing flowers and weeping. The General and his men could have asked no deeper tribute...
...balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation, a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200 enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish...