Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After several days of tangled and futile discussions, the Reichstag met to take a final vote. The galleries of the chamber were crowded to their maximum capacity with diplomats, distinguished visitors and breathless journalists. On the floor of the chamber, 441 Reichstag members assembled. A two-thirds majority, or 294...
Dr. Fosdick sailed for England. He crowded the greatest Protestant "chapels" of England. He touched the heart of England. His theology was acceptable to England. Dr. Fosdick returned. He was offered several famous American pulpits. He considered whether his preaching of the gospel ought to be contingent upon a theological...
"The economic situation is appalling. Prices are much higher than in 1914 and wages much lower. No fine clothes are seen on the streets. Women are buying only gabardine suits and such things as are calculated to wear forever. The streets are positively crowded with beggars, a new phenomenon for...
Imogene meant no wrong. She was simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she...
A rotund little Frenchman, perspiring, slovenly, excited as a baker chasing stolen buns, rushed, dithering and gesticulating about the prize ring in the Polo Grounds, Manhat- tan. In frothing, broken accents he screamed at the referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For...