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...depicted the Prince of Wales in Manhattan, evidently in that holy of holies le grand monde. The Prince is surrounded by a mob of females of the heavily bejeweled ladder-climbing variety. One says...
...with him through a certain scene in Richmond, later-a great mob of sweating, smoking, spitting men; a jury of eminent Virginians; untidy, courageous John Marshall in the Chair; and Burr, the little Colonel-powdered hair, black coat, pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...
Over the border in Syria (French mandate), whence the Earl had gone presumably at the invitation of the French, things were different. At Damascus, a furious mob twice attacked his hotel. The second onslaught, which started in "The Street That is Called Straight," almost ended in disaster, for when the gendarmes had nearly been overpowered French troops appeared and spanked off, with the flats of their swords, the seething crowd, which was yelling "Down with Balfour...
From time immemorial, when a necessary statute is not enforced officially, the Peepul generously take it upon themselves to act as keepers of the peace. Whether the undergraduate mob who bombarded a certain house on Plympton Street because of a belated burst of nocturnal jazz Friday evening, kept or broke the peace is a matter of opinion. That they enforced obedience to Parietal Rule No. 4, however, there is not the slightest doubt. Plainly it was a public demonstration that the greatest good of the greatest number shall be maintained, even at the sacrifice of alarm clocks, soap, bottles...
...Lawless mob action is not to be encouraged. Yet, the despotism of minority-owned and -operated saxophones over the sleep of the undergraduate masses has flourished diurnally, or rather nocturnally, to the point where mob action has at last interfered and set a precedent. The Riot Act has been read to yodelling Rheinharts, operatic understudies, and ragtime virtuosi. The day of the proctor and yard cop is obviously past, for the undergraduate has discovered he himself is a splendid disciplinarian, and he takes a decided pleasure in his office. Gilbert and Sullivan might well have said, "When constabulary duty...