Word: laden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation of peasant women, laden with wreaths for their Queen, had fallen asleep in the warm stuffy waiting-room, and, as no one woke them up, they snored on. Marie of Rumania was home...
...Soldiers Field locker building all was bustle yesterday afternoon. Perspiring harassed managers dashed about with arms laden with towels, shoes, and strange articles of the football profession. Voices shrieked down the steaming halls. It was moving...
Statistically inquisitive, a CRIMSON representative discovered that 12 trunks were required to transport the duffle of the squad to New Haven. Two trucks, conveyed by seven faithful retainers, left early yesterday laden with blankets, 20 carboys of filtered water, and other baggage of bulk. One of the most important items on the list of equipment is a consignment of 600 towels...
Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
...Spume laden, a storm swept in from the subtle Mediterranean last week, struck between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...