Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the...
Female modern apartment denizens, as crowded for space as birds in a cage, viewed with delight a new style of furniture brought forth last week by artists at the Art Centre, 56th St., Manhattan. Artists, although all the word knows them to be useless, sometimes have fantastically practical ideas.
A prominent, long-to-be-remembered outrage occurred in San Antonio last year on the final day of the Texas Open Golf Championship. Bobby Cruickshank, diminutive but skillful, came to the 72nd green, found a short putt between himself and victory. The gallery politely turned to stone as Cruickshank commenced...
The time is not entirely out of sight when it will be not only convenient but necessary to build foot-bridges, such as are used in crowded parts of London, over Massachusetts Avenue. Traffic certainly cannot be asked to detour a quarter of a mile for the conveniences of the...
*Federal prisons containing 8,516 inmates June, 1925 (latest census), were crowded. Penitentiaries are at Atlanta, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and McNeil's Island, Wash.; Naval prisons at Boston, Portsmouth, N. H. and Mare Island, Calif.