Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Highlands, New Jersey, was once a sleepy fishing village the Gopher it is the center of the rum landing industry. The shipyards are crowded, Prairie of the Jersey marshes. Now new boats slip down the ways every day, and ship builders are at such a premium that skippers and their...
It may be true that "super-sixes" among men go through life at a disadvantage on account of their height; but yesterday, at President Eliot's lecture, many of those present would have been glad to add a cubit to their stature, in order to see over the crowd that...
Mr. Pollock's most recent achievement as an author is "The Fool", a play now running in Boston which has attracted considerable attention. He is also the author of the "The Crowded Hour" and "The Sign on the Door" as well as a contributor of dramatic articles to many magazines...
"The drama is an art, but it is also a business," he continued. "Because some musical comedy runs for three weeks in Boston, the theatre managers require that Shakspere must also run three weeks. Each musical comedy, or bedroom farce, as the case may be, is new to the public...
In a crowded court-room in Salem over eighty years ago the prosecuting attorney, Daniel Webster, pronounced what led to death on the men being tried for the murder of Captain White. His magnetic eloquence always effective, in this case left a profound impression on the minds of his contemporaries...