Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...look back, it seems but a very short time since the street and sidewalks in front of Leavitt and Peirce's were be set by a mob of students who had gathered to wish success to the departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...
...infield Cook played magnificently. All of his chances were on balls that were unusually swift and difficult to manage, and his throwing was perfect. Frothingham had some hard balls to handle, but played steadily and with much judgment. Under the circumstances surrounded as he was by a hooting, howling mob of men, Mason did as well as could be expected...
...only fiction of the number is a story by Mr. Lovett entitled "The Coward." It is a reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York mob...
...Presupposes corrupt or weak courts; e g Vehmgericht: Kohlrausch, History of Germany, 278-285.- [b] Is an evidence of a tendency to anarchy.- [c] Leads the community to neglect its regular system of laws and justice.- [d] The evil in the Louisiana courts must be attacked from within; the mob has not settled the matter permanently: Nation, March...
...action of the mob produced most deplorable results.- [a] It has stirred up the Italians all over the United States: Boston Jour nal, Mar. 17; Globe, Mar. 16 and 17; Record, Mar. 21; Public Opinion, Mar. 21.- [b] It has driven the better Italian element from New Orleans: Boston Globe, Mar. 17.- [c] The remaining Italians are ready to take revenge.- [d] It has disgraced the city. State, and Nation: Public...