Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huffed a police sergeant at the palace gates, "there's nothing to see 'ere. Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
...want Philip!" chanted some of the crowd. "We want grandpa!" cried others. Some began singing Pack Up Your Troubles and All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor. Then the whole crowd had squared away in the inevitable British hymn of love, For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...young men of her acquaintance one day, she had no idea the letters were going to turn up in black type in Komsomolskaya Pravda, but they did. Miss Stepanchenko had made the deplorable mistake of getting all three letters into the wrong envelopes. The recipients thought three was a crowd and exposed the flirtatious Galina. Moscow Correspondent Joseph Newman sent Komsomolskaya Pravda's story along to the New York Herald Tribune, which pubished it this week...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
...year's team and part-time coach this season, pointed to the Freshman and Jayvee games as an indication of things to come, while Cleo O'Donnell addressed his remarks to a small but extroverted group of Elis who were singing bravely but unnoticed at the edge of the crowd. "I think they should come out of the cover of darkness," O'Donnell said, "because they certainly won't have much to cheer about tomorrow...