Possible Clues:

• The common folk
• Commoners, collectively
• The mob's taking cut -- be doubly alert about it
• Masses hit oil pool with no time to deviate
• Masses of hot oil sprinkled twice over river
• He's first — I say! I say! — to secure vote for the common people
• The common people, generally
• The masses vote to follow Independent in Ohio when desperate
• The ordinary folk
• The masses (Greek)