Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crowded Quarters
Pictorial Review's circulation (2.540,000 last June) is about the same as the other closely-bunched leaders in the crowded field of women's magazines. Its proud boast is that Pictorial Review alone of the group can point to circulation over 2,000,000 for every issue...
*William Gibbs McAdoo, Mr. Baker's Cabinet colleague, wrote in his autobiographical Crowded Years: "Baker used to sit at his desk at the War Department with one leg curled up under him. . . . On his desk there was always a fresh pansy. . . ."
Honolulu, paradisaic melting pot of East & West, was tense with trouble last week. Yellow men's lust for white women had broken bounds. Short sharp disorders brought the tramp of soldiery through the streets. A tremor of apprehension ran through Hawaii's motley population- coolies from China, great...
Visitors, including a number of white-robed chiefs from Morocco, crowded the Cortes chamber. The diplomatic corps, headed by the purple-robed Papal Nuncio, was there in all its gold lace and feathers.