Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ocean At the foot of 23rd Street, Coney Island, at seven o'clock one evening, surly breakers crowded over Morris Ravmitzky, 17. The undertow pressed its oily brine down into his lungs, dragged his body out for the depth crabs to fumble over. For three days and nights the...
Trippers just home from Europe, bubbling over with news of how fast the taxicabs go in Paris and how hard it is to buy good cigarets in England, received a sorry setback, and their envious friends a flush of joy, upon opening the September number of McCall's magazine...
*Named for the late Engineer Clifford M. Holland who devised the system of fans that is guaranteed to keep the tubes freer of carbon monoxide than a car-crowded city street. *The next largest: Blackwell Tunnel, under the Thames in London; length, 6,200 ft.
Canteens. The 500,000 employes of the Italian State smacked their lips last week in anticipation of choice foodstuffs, shortly to be offered them at cost by government canteens established in municipal buildings throughout Italy. Nine such canteens were opened at Rome last week and immediately crowded. To save wheat...
Count Bruga's tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the...