Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories high and a glistening jet-black, the new building stands out in Manchester's dingy Great Ancoats Street like a jackdaw in a crowd of sparrows, is admittedly about twice as large as necessary. Manchester Expressmen, celebrating quietly last week over glasses of "bitter" in the nextdoor Crown and Kettle, were doubtful about the reason for this, but in London Lord Beaverbrook explained. Said he: "It exemplifies my type...
...streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...belabored the keyboard thunderously in the "grand manner," many of the world's promising pianists were still taking lessons from long-haired Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt. Of Liszt's pupils today, only a few white-haired oldsters survive. Of these survivors only one can still draw a crowd to a concert hall; a stocky, orange-whiskered veteran named Moriz Rosenthal...
...rushing for Yale to 72 by Harvard. The way Yale was able to gain through the line was discouraging; but the day was made to order for the lumbering Eli offense. The Pondmen were really the "pond-men." The field, first damp, became progressively soggy and saturated. The crowd was wet throughout...
Across the aisle, quite lost and unnoticed in the subway crowd, sat her "Daddy", Richard Cresson Harlow, discussing with Skip Stahley and a few other cronies the great victory over Yale that afternoon. He carried his usual black satchel...