Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like unrolling carpets ... so thick that in places the ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace...
Died. James Ford Rhodes, 78, noted historian, who was not a college graduate but later received honorary LL.D.'s from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, N. Y. U. and other universities; at Brookline, Mass. His great work was a painstaking history of the U. S. which appeared intermittently between 1893 and 1920, and finally emerged in a revised edition of eight volumes: A History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaigns of 1896. The Berlin Academy of Science awarded him the Loubat prize in 1901, and in 1918 he won the Pulitzer prize for history...
...second act is a corker. There is real drama there, too, strange as it may seem, and thrilling suspense. That haunting, beautifully-mournful Lata vian legend will chase cerie shivers up and down your back. And the mass staging is superb. Miss McCormick dances, the chorus dances, and a set of little rag dolls dance, all well...
Lacking the voice of pomp, and judiciously unsensational, the Council's words are little heard by the mass of U. S. citizens. But it has for its utterances, almost certainly, one constant reader: Calvin Coolidge...
...Arabian Nightmare is frankly a "fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters knew just where to laugh. The surprise of the performance was Helen Lowell. In the serious part of the wife in God Loves Us earlier this season she won praise. Now she comes prancing on to the stage in a comic swimming suit, her face plastered with cosmetic...