Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of giving the late chairman a pension. I'd like to know what it is likely to be." A reticent chairman finally announced that Harry Selfridge had been retained as "consultant" at a salary of ?2,000 a year. Result was a sort of polite mob scene...
Next day through a shouting, hooting mob the tumbrils brought Robespierre and 21 colleagues to a hastily erected guillotine. Unlike Danton, Robespierre said nothing even when a child, "carrying a pailful of ox's blood and a whisk broom," stepped up to Robespierre's house and sprinkled the wall. "The crowd," says Author Korngold, "howled its approval...
...fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...
...handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does an $85,000-a-year business, "is wined and dined in homes that some social climbers would give no less than their right arm to even get in the kitchen...
...tried to place before Catholics-the choice between "Germanism" and disloyalty. His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!'' Cardinal von Faulhaber narrowly missed a Nazi bullet in 1934. In 1938 a Nazi mob smashed the windows of his palace. Now 71, he is in ill health, but he still leads Germany's Catholics in their resistance to Hitler...