Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In muddy bleak Tiomne, near Uman, a church was crowded last week. Dingy communicants, bearded, bright-eyed, breathless, gazed in fascination at a plain wooden table which stood before the altar. A young man lay across the table. His throat was bared.
Ten thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria's birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance.
His speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the...
Soon the Cabinet officers convened at the palace. Troops and police in new, bright uniforms were ranged outdoors. The populace crowded the sidewalks. Flags of Cuba and of those two score nations which had sent special envoys to the Inaugural, fluttered everywhere. Cuba always has a breeze blowing. It makes...
But Newsgatherer Bath would not have seen the new arrivals attend church services Sunday morning, for, though servants, town characters, village gossips crowded the little North Haven Chapel to overflowing, neither a Morrow nor Pilot Lindbergh worshipped in public that day.