Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This facetiousness pleased the mob. Waves of laughter lapped back against the amplifiers. The seat-hunters shuffled on, craning to see what was causing such a great sound from the platform. The sputtering, hissing Klieg searchlights played down on a tall, dark, ministerial figure grasping the high lectern with both outstretched hands. Despite the speaker's height, his appearance was partly obscured by the three panels of aluminum microphones behind which all the convention speakers had to function. Chairs kept on scraping. Seats clacked up and down. The drone of conversation died away slowly as the Voice resumed...
...career. The opera was undoubtedly too long and it seemed to contain a superfluity of dialogue, of inactive interludes that were only vaguely melodic. Lyrical passages were few. Fra Gherardo was original mainly for its orchestration and for the thunderous, muttering chorus which reached its climax in a mob scene at the end of the third act. These choruses were unlike anything that Milanese operagoers had ever seen before. There was something terrible and true in that imitation of the angry shouted songs of many men together, songs sweeping with strong steadiness through a range of cruelty and fear...
Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
...Vyesolod Pudovkin, nor those who viewed his efforts. The peasant and his troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes of Lebedew's stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers in a muddy trench. The hero of the play was really that grotesque animal, the Russian mob: this was frequently seen running about, giving its loud roar. The happy ending of The End of St. Petersburg occurred when the Soviet rule became established...
...hypothetical hosts of rustics who are to intimidate the Convention like a Paris mob in a French Revolution, are partisans of the McNary-Haugen bill. According to the farm dailies and the associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout...