Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A crowded House of Commons gave fascinated attention, last week, to plump, ruddy-cheeked Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, shrewdly audacious Chancellor of Great Britain's Exchequer.
Throughout the Soviet Union it is a grim jest to say that neither the Voice of God nor that of the People can be heard above the silence of Comrade Josef Stalin. Always shabbily dressed, the Dictator prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist...
Sir Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller...
Were a caricaturist to sketch a situation that last week developed on the U. S. investment scene, he might show President E. H. H. Simmons of New York Stock Exchange as a headwaiter of a crowded restaurant, and Chairman Charles Hamilton Sabin of the Guaranty Co. as a caterer serving...
Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of...