Of course, what you have to realize is that until really the postwar era, many New York mobs were multicultural.

When war comes, or mobs attack, or hurricanes strike, our science and our arts are abandoned first.

The courts have rendered their functions to the mobs in some localities, and all but anarchy sits enthroned.

The mobs first assailed the banks and stores, but finding them too strongly guarded turned their attention elsewhere.

I have seen meetings turned into mobs and mobs dissolved again into meetings.

Mobs occurred, blood was shed and the people were compelled to look to some spot where they could abide in peace.