Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed the piano, burned pictures of Stalin and Browder when talked out of burning down the hall. The 25 inside escaped unhurt through a rear door. Two blocks away the Finnish meeting went off quietly...
...years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year...
...Louder, Browder!" yelled the crowd outside. Someone led a long Yale cheer for Browder that drowned out his speech. Someone else dumped a pail of water from the roof. The crowd chanted the famed Undertaker's Song. Soon paper bags and firecrackers began to pop. An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians...
...promises everybody a quart of caviar," translated a listener at a window to the crowd outside. "Caviar!" they cried. "We want caviar...
...anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about 50,000-to-1. Last week the Capitol still had its original bait, had won back most of its Tuesday night crowd. In the wind was a national variation of his scheme: a $2,000 pot, offered to all cinemaudiences of major U. S. cinema circuits, and subscribed by a $1-a-week assessment on each U. S. chain cinema house...