Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handful of State Police met the mob first with the butts of their rifles. They clubbed and pommeled, and were treated in turn to a shower of sticks, rocks, knife-stabs. One trooper had his eye gouged nearly out. None escaped injury. Mr. Scherf ordered a retreat to the Columbine gates, where he formed the troopers in a double...
...mob growled and surged. The troopers cursed. Mr. Scherf ordered a volley over the heads of the "Wobblies." They did not wobble. The next volley, point blank into the close-packed marchers, brought shrieks, confusion a halt. Bodies began dropping to the ground?one, two. As the "Wobblies" retreated, more of the wounded fell out. Five died, 20 were wounded, including two women in men's clothing...
...Climax of the play occurs when Barbara stands in the balcony outside the room of her wounded lover, clutching the Stars and Stripes to her breast. She is saved from the indignant mob by "Stonewall" Jackson, who marches in from Hagarstown by an exactly opposite direction to that in which the Union troops left for the same place. Amid fanfares of music, an endless line of soldiers, dressed in queer parodies of the Confederate uniform, passes under the balcony. If you are near enough to the front, you can quite plainly hear them racing around back stage to join...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...thoughtless mob appeared suddenly to the Mitchells as the car passed the crest of a hill...