Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that she has a right to say so, on Morton Hill especially. Deserted by her influential relatives, the girl is forced to choose between indictment on an espionage charge and retraction. She does the noble thing, suffers the fate of every good citizen who lifts eyes higher than the mob. It becomes increasingly clear that, in Josephine Hutchinson, Miss Le Gallienne has found a young actress of bright talent...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
...Publisher Bonfils knows ringmaster gabble. With his late partner, H. H. Tarnmen, he owned the Sells-Floto circus. The basis of his journalistic technique is a sardonic conception of "the people" as a childish mob to be amused, pampered, bullied, used...
...Officer Gohane broke his club in two pieces. Officer Prior drew his pistol when the mob cried, "Get the damn cop!" Clubbing began soon after the students tried to tip over a patrol wagon. Besides ice and eggs, bottles, both pint and quart sizes, were hurled. Some of the students were suspected of having drunk intoxicants from some of the bottles...
...tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife?Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with his ragged army. In less than a year the Austrians were thrashed, Northern Italy was conquered, the Alps snickered...