Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...manner in which their types of character, tragic or droll, differ from ours. The great Revolution appeals to us not for its size but because of the dramatic quality of its executions and the fineness and intensity of the aristocrats thrown into relief by the unrestrained, but justly impassioned mob. The gayety of the modern Parisian is something so hard to define, so hard to put your hand on, that it is often a relief after our own boisterous humor...
...Spies should be court-martialed, lined up and their citizenship ended by bullets; those who express treasonable sentiments should be tried and punished, but in all cases law should be obeyed and mob violence, as practised in certain parts of the United States, should be condemned everywhere, that the United States may not sink to the lawless savagery of the Germans...
...direction have served to emphasize the seriousness of the revolt. When the Government finds it necessary to court-martial industrial workers in a building closed to the public and guarded by bayonets, its alarm is great. It may very likely be that bayonets and machine guns may keep the mob of Berlin and other cities in subjection for the time being, but this will not destroy industrial demands and deep dissatisfaction. The Socialist paper "Vorwaerts" is right when it says that this movement comes from the workers' fear that they have been misled...
...last evening, Professor R. M. Johnston pointed out the weaknesses of the United States military policy since the time of the Mexican war, and described the unfortunate results which have been caused by it. Professor Johnston attacked first the theory of recruiting and hastily equipping a mob of recruits with no previous military experience. Statements made by General Meade, Kirby Smith and McClellan at the close of the Mexican campaign agreed in the assertation that the volunteers were not only inefficient and unmanageable, but that they murdered and pillaged wherever they went...
...pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them...