Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Importance bustled along the quays and streets of Geneva, Switzerland (see LEAGUE OF NATIONS Page 11). The great the ex-great, the near-great crowded its hundred hotels. Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance...
It was eleven o'clock A bell rang. The hawsers were cast off. The great vessel began to tremble with the churning of her screws. Gradually she backed away from the dock and drew put into the Solent. Suddenly a little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and...
Civil service officials and the old imperial servants crowded the church. The Press was barred (and took its revenge the next day in sarcastic derision).
"I cannot begin to tell you, my friends, what I saw and heard in those places, all of which were supposed to be 'respectable.' I can give you only the faintest idea in this address. In one dance hall, which had been formerly a great skating rink, we...
After a brief reception the Prince drove on down the Avenida de Mayo crowded with people for more than a mile while flowers rained on his carriage as he passed. At last he was safely ensconced in his official residence, Basualdo Palace.