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...string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers survived...
Prior, who was attacked two weeks ago by a mob of angry Protestants, warned that the government would not allow "private armies" to take over from the police and the army. But during the Newtownards rally, British troops were conspicuously absent and the police kept discreetly to side streets, leading to concern that the government would not be able to contain the "third force...
...much momentum has been a problem at some of the New England fiddle contests, especially the big celebration held each July at Craftsbury, Vt. This year a crowd of some 25,000 people-an alarming mob for Vermont-swarmed over the town common on the day of the contest, stayed all night and broke up outhouses to burn in campfires. An abundant young woman wearing bib overalls and nothing else, as some accounts have it, got up on the bandstand at Craftsbury and danced. The opinion in Rutland is that she was a hippie. The voters of Craftsbury decided...
With less than five minutes to play, the Bruins broke the ice. Brown got the ball on a short corner and as a mob formed in front of the Crimson net, Bruin forward Susan Kay poked the ball by Lamont...
...might rest as the most endearing of America's legends to its people, but only the most skilled raconteur of folklore could possibly weave the country's many pasts into a common present. The vestiges of a divided history appear all around us: ethnic differences often distinguish rioting, mob violence, and political lobbying as they do styles of eating and dressing. Yet, the vast divergence in living standards afflicting the country remains as the most constant reminder of our schizophrenic heritage. A visit to Roxbury or South Boston will show which ethnic group did not come over on the Mayflower...