Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Francis Curry arrived from Ireland on Manhattan's west side as a babe in arms 55 years ago. His father was a cattle dealer. He went to work as a messenger boy, ran errands for prominent men. In those days, to be prominent was to be a politician...
A patrol wagon growled up West 18th Street, Manhattan, last week and stopped back of St. Francis Xavier's parochial school. Pupils crowded to the windows and watched patrolmen enter the semi-basement of No. 46, a brownstone house. Soon appeared a dozen agitated women. Some carried infants. Then...
The whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim...
Small wonder that Author Wallace, indefatigable, portly and debonair, lives a crowded schedule. He begins the day at 7 o'clock by consuming eight newspapers, dictates mysteries until 10 a.m., breakfasts, resumes writing until 1. In the afternoons he supervises his play rehearsals, inspects cinema versions of his stories...
On Tuesday, therefore, fully 150 people crowded into the factory loft. To honor the holiday, and the educational-propagandal film from Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking...