Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that mob over the jumps...
...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...
...smash-finish of the play brings on Lindbergh Number Two, played by M. Pierre Tristan, who never realized that he resembled the Colonel until a Paris mob recently descended upon him (TIME, Oct. 1) and bore him shoulder high, under the impression that the real Lindbergh had slipped back to Paris...
Naturally this mob scene, including the original mobee, was shrewdly introduced by Playwright Guitry as his final, terrific curtain scene...
...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...