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...guards of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin resisted the entrance of a mob led by the Countess Markievicz. She opened her purse, drew out a pistol, shot the guard dead, and continued to lead a faction of the great Republican demonstration staged in Dublin throughout the notorious "Black Easter Week...
...that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when he refers to "amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism...
...Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept two out of three into death during the great...
...short run. This year, during last week only, it was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with incidental music by Charles L. Safford. The confusion of brilliance in the cast resulted from William Courtleigh (Caesar), James Rennie (Antony), Basil Rathbone (Cassius), Tyrone Power (Brutus), Mary Young (Portia), Homer Croy (Mob), Bruce Bairnsfather (Mob...
...barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded in the distance. Finally, the police succeeded in roping off the Spirit of St. Louis, and Captain Lindbergh was carried by automobile to U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton and Sir Samuel Hoare, British Secretary...