Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated mob...
...must be heroes. The people crave a new "Red" Grange. None has turned up. This year there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract...
Gene Tunney was escorted, after a welcoming demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water...
...Geneva, a mob of 5,000 took possession of the city. They smashed about $40,000 worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck...