Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, Mass...
...High mass drew to its solemn close in Beaux Cathedral, France. Three young men waited in the square outside to sell newspapers to the faithful. All the newspapers were the same-an issue of Editor Leon Daudet's L' Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor...
Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...
...Lynn, Mass., one Antonio Gallo and one Rossanio Boleno, aged 60 each, fought a duel with walking sticks in Central Square, applauded by a growing crowd, until interrupted by policemen. Both wore spectacles and needed their sticks in order to walk. A judge fined Mr. Gallo $10, Mr. Boleno...
...survivor of the ill-fated 1879 expedition in search of the northwest passage to the north pole; led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong; in Providence, R. I. Died. Thomas Dixon Lockwood, 78, inventor of the automatic telephone call, retired official of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; at Melrose, Mass...