Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice...
...mutes in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in charge of a kindly, white-haired Jesuit named Rev. Michael A. Purtell. Father Purtell holds weekly services in the three cities, runs a newspaper called The Catholic Deaf-Mute, confesses, marries, baptizes, buries and supervises the social activities of a flock...
What made Brooklyn flock to the Radio City Theatre and fill it for two weeks when "Flying Down to Rio" played there? Why the tremendous ballyhoo for a musical picture when the public is just about fed up with the song and dance story that oozes from Hollywood in heavy doses? Frankly, I can not explain the whims of the movie fans, for "Flying Down to Rio" presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend...
Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...
Hastily Governor Lehman secured legislation creating a quasi-public protective committee to salvage something for the hundreds of thousands of investors who had bought mortgage bonds on the strength of the "guarantee." In August a flock of small solvent companies were permitted to reopen. The rest with 97% of the outstanding guarantees were taken over for "rehabilitation...