Word: mobsmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...More mobsmen were inflamed by six members of the Cyprus Legislative Council who denounced Storrs for enforcing a recent order-in-council by His Majesty George V. It erects tariffs explicitly rejected by Cyprus' own Council. "Citizens! Greeks!" cried the disgruntled Councilmen, "KATΩ OI TΥPANNOl!" ("Down with the Tyrants!"), "KATΩ OI ΞENOl!" ("Out with the Foreigners...
...frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid on. The Foreign Minister of China was almost beaten then and there to Death, would have been had not his loyal servants flying-wedged the mob. By fierce work and low punching they rescued Mr. Wang, rushed him bleeding to his home. Doctors said, "His wounds...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house, or just a cottage? Apparently Mr. Churchill felt that a cottage would be adequate, especially since the saving would help to balance his budget...