Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little nickels and times...
Reactionary program planners have been subjected to some rather bitter attacks from critics all over this country during the last few years. Jose Rodriguez, in Script, addressed a statement to Leopold Stokowski of which a part is quoted here:" . . . If you wish, you can please the mob, and also the students and the initiated. You can give a hearing to the masters of tomorrow as well as those of yesterday; among the first, particularly those who speak of the aspirations of our time and our own country; among the second, those who have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their...
They Wanted Peace (Amkino). An ironically titled Russian film which demonstrates that Soviet directors can still handle people in masses with a realism and a feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...
...they had done its predecessors. Last week Congressman William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss, addressed himself to the 1940 bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from Manhattan's black Harlem. Said Mr. Colmer, who as district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think I can see again . . . the plumed knight of the black people . . . astride a great white steed. ... an emblem of purity. ... All honor to the champion of Harlem. All hail the great white chieftain of the black man!" Contemptuous...
...half-sized crowd reported at the Dartmouth game, about three-fourths of which was composed of dates, shoe-shine boys with free tickets, and the perennial mob of sadists who are always willing to plank down $1.65 to see Harvard checked into the boards...