Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilks grew impatient with the laughter in the room, spoke up to Lawyer Pennypacker, who had walked back to the counsel table...
This week on the eve of the new parliamentary session the furrows in Premier Blum's brow grew deeper. So apprehensive was the Paris Bourse that Bank of France stocks dropped 585 francs ($26), nearly one-tenth of their value. Meantime 30,000 small storekeepers assembled angrily in the capital to denounce Premier Blum's two-days-a-week closing order...
...dogs became frantic with hunger, boatmen grew fearful that the pack would swim out and capsize them, steered clear of the island. Soon the last lean dog gave up gnawing his dead fellows' bones...
Greene and Comora joined the only other outsider present, a New York Jour nal reporter named Joseph Denove. After the garrulous black "God" had been at it for two hours, and showed no sign of concluding although it was 3 a. m., even Harry Greene grew bored watching. They approached the platform, where Comora in legal fashion smartly tapped Father Divine on the chest with the summons. According to the process server, Father Divine shouted "Ugh!" or "a sort of a yell," and the assembly room became uproar...
...large grew the crowd that a policeman asked who was its leader. A scrawny Negro named "Happy Heart" stepped forward, said: "Father's followers have no leader. We all work by intuition. You won't have any trouble if you just let us alone." Father Divine was taken to Felony Court, released for hearing this week upon payment of $500 bail by a follower named "St. Mary Bloom." Uptown there were more crowds and the skies rained cards printed: Your Maker and Creator Is Here. In Kingdom No. 1, Father Divine ate with his shouting followers. The homecoming...