Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to "fast unto death" unless political opponents gave way on some point or other. Five times he has lost a few pounds, won all his points, lived on. At high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
Although he died within seven years, Louis Pasteur was wrong. For around his tomb, which stands in the largest of the three Institute buildings, moves a crowd of busy scientists who are so passionately devoted to Pasteur's ideals of free criticism and painstaking experiment that his lifetime has really been projected into the future. Many of his successors still use his old furniture, work with his old instruments. And janitor of the Institute is old Joseph Meister. "I shall see always Pasteur's good face focused on me," he tells Institute visitors...
About 5:30 p.m. a noisy, excited throng churned into St. Peter's Square in front of the Vatican. What brought the crowd running now was news of a second sfumata. This one, through some mischance, had been first white, then black. But the white smoke meant that there had been an election. The crowd heaved forward as an enormous cloth, bearing the arms of the papacy, was suspended from St. Peter's balcony. Above it appeared a violet-clad form-Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni. Dean of Cardinal Deacons. Into a microphone which carried his words to loudspeakers...
...most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor, the throng, with apparent spontaneity, burst into a hymn, Christus Vincit...
...Manhattan, during the battle scene of Maurice Evans' Henry IV, Part I, the offstage martial hurly-burly is provided by a gramophone record. Newshawks discovered its name: General Excited Confusion of Crowd at Baseball Game...