Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to do a play next." T.S. Eliot '10 said yesterday afternoon following an hour's reading of his poetry to an overflow audience of about 1700 in Sanders Theatre. The drama, his first work since "Four Quartets," will be a "sort of successor to 'Family Reunion,' " he said...
...case of an overflow crowd at the lecture, Eliot's talk will be piped by loud-speaker into New Lecture Hall, so that those unable to jam into the Memorial Hall theatre will still be able to hear the poet...
Cancellation of the reading brought to a temporary standstill plans for the first Morris Gray Poetry Reading lecture ever to be scheduled for Sanders Theatre. Expectations of a large audience and experience with overflow crowds at last year's lecture had led University officials to reserve the large room for Wednesday's program...
...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...
Each morning Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...