Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶It is not an unusual thrill to Washington gentry to touch the elbow of Mrs. Coolidge while she shops in a crowded department store, or to see her as she walks along the sunny avenue. Frequently she sorties unattended. Last week it was fortunate that her son, John, was...
¶ Held memorial services for the late Senator Robert M. Lafollette, the present Senator Lafollette presiding, at the Vice-President's invitation, over a crowded chamber.
Next day fully 200,000 people crowded into the stadium at Soldiers' Field on the Lake Michigan waterfront, heard addresses by Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich, the Honorable David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Cardinal Dubois of Paris, Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, Australia. (The next, 1928, Eucharistic Congress will be...
Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon...
Reaction, concomitant with post-war existence, has forced the leaders of contemporary thought further from sanity than they would readily admit. In refusing to bend toward any cognizance of that element in human nature upon which war thrives, these intellectuals lean backwards until personal equilibrium is the result merely of...