Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease...
...author, W. J. Turner, seems to seek the allegorical representation of the idea that only an outcast deserted by the squeamish mob, can be true to his own greatness. But he has smothered it in stale epigrams...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
More than one ministry in the "right little tight little island" of Great Britain has labored heroically with the problem of unemployment, has been cursed and vilified for laboring in vain, and has gone down under the insensate heel of the mob. Now it appears from dispatches, unless these be propaganda of the present ministry, that the fight has been against an irresistible force of nature. Too late to make redress the English public will discover that it has been unjust, that something which is almost impossible of remedy is the cause of unemployment--bigger and better health. Instead...
...angry mob...