Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large crowd gathered to watch the testing of the Lafayette Square Fire Department's new hook and ladder, complete with 100-feet water tower. The boys from Lafayette gleefully sprayed the home of the boys from Koscluske with two towering torrents of water. "This is the only time we ever have fun," exulted one smoke-eater...
...Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football (professional) League: a game against the Detroit Lions, 7-to-5, before a crowd of 43,000; at Briggs Stadium, Detroit. With a record of three victories, one defeat and one tie this season, the Redskins led the Eastern Division of the league last week...
Kirkland was dropped out of the House football lead by a giant-killing crowd of basketball players from Adams who slew the Deacons 7-6 by putting on the finest aerial attack ever seen in intra-mural football. The once-beaten, once tied 'Coasters completed pass after pass against a helpless Kirkland defense. Another surprise result, dimmed by the Deacon upset, was Lowell's last-ditch win over Eliot...
...pleasantly surprised Stadium crowd last Saturday which, at life end of the first quarter of the Army game, rose to cheer the loudspeaker report ".. at the end of the first half, Harvard Freshmen 14, Worcester Academy 0." And although the final score was not quite so impressive, Crimson football fans had the satisfaction of knowing that after two years of defeat, the Yardlings had come...
...adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured by crashing glass from a broken window. Later, the crowd made a bonfire in St. Stephen's Square, burned a small crucifix, a painting of the Virgin Mary and a portrait of the Cardinal, scrawled on the walls of the palace: "Away with the priests! To Dachau* with Innitzer!" From the second story of a nearby canons' residence...