Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
During the past few weeks the University's preparations for war have been sharply criticised, the chief charge against them being of mob hysteria. It has been said that we are going "warmad," and plunging into the new work forgetful of all other obligations. We thus have the responsibility of living down these imputations by the closest possible attention to the immediate tasks at hand, particularly the college work itself...
...character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...
...from which Lord Kitchener formed the "first hundred thousand." His regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was among the first sent to the front, and with others composed the first army sent to France by England, known as "the first hundred thousand" and also "K 1" and "Kitchener's Mob." Captain Beith has had a brilliant record as a soldier and has been frequently mentioned in the army reports for gallantry under fire...
...been used up in getting a long-distance call over the telephone. What conviction has the ordinary excuse now for me? And what strange glimpses I have had of lives! The boy who lay for eighteen hours under the dead body of his mother in Kishineff, until the mob drew off; the girl who wrote of the two men who wished to marry her, pinning their photographs to the paper, and asked me which to choose--those are examples out of literally hundreds that linger in my conscious or subconscious memory. And on the other hand, what a delightful lass...