Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Priest Coughlin & retinue (including Senators Nye and Elmer Thomas) came to the platform great was the ovation. The hall, with 15,000 people in it, was nearly full but there was no overflow audience. First, the evening's hero let his sponsors spellbind the crowd. Applause and cheers came liberally, turning to hisses when Priest Coughlin's Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Ward, referred to "a certain kept General, Hugh S. Johnson." It was 11 p. m. before Priest Coughlin's turn arrived but the audience was still enthusiastic...
California holds its Charter Day exercises in a handsome open Greek Theater on the first slope of the hills which rise from San Francisco Bay. Early one morning last fortnight workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided...
...Wartime gunner in the 5th Canadian Siege Battery, Dr. Bonnell has held pastorates in Prince Edward Island, St. John, N. B. and Winnipeg where during the past six years he received 1,000 persons into Westminster United Church, drew overflow audiences in two lecture halls adjoining his church. Last year Dr. Bonnell was the youngest man ever to receive a D.D. from his alma mater, Dalhousie University in Halifax. Two sermons at Fifth Avenue Church one Sunday last month were enough to earn Dr. Bonnell the call, which involves $10,000 a year, a three-month vacation and "the equivalent...
...Pierian Room in Paine Hall is the obvious solution to the whole problem. It can be very easily converted into a reading room, and lined with shelves. The music library now in Widener should be transferred there; and the basement could be used to store the overflow, as there is direct access by a small staircase. No less important is a permanent librarian who knows music, to replace the present one on part time. Any solution takes money, but this proposal is relatively inexpensive, and would give a new lease of life to the Music Department...
From 9.00 until 2.00 o'clock there will be dancing in the Common Room, while an amplifier system will permit overflow into the dining, hall, where a midnight supper will be served...