Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
Last week in London two distinguished Britons uprose to demolish the "Aryan fallacy" once & for all. A thousand scientists were there from 42 countries to attend the Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. In the audience were Germans who sat in stony silence amid gales of applause...
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
Wall Streeters - mostly clerks, guards, runners - attend Trinity's daily noonday service. Six or eight old-fashioned limousines still roll downtown each Sunday morning, bearing Cranes, Dixes, Livingstons, Burleighs to church. But most of Trinity's Sunday congregation, which averages around 200, now comes by subway and ferry from Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx...
...after the election Commissioner Pecora left Washington for Manhattan, did not attend any more S.E.C. meetings all week. He was careful to explain, however, that he was simply winding up his personal affairs in Manhattan preparatory to moving to Washington to devote all his time to "putting the child on its feet...