Word: overrunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within ten minutes the formal resignation was in General Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...
...original journalese for the Brooklyn club?"Dodgers"?was founded on the popular belief that, Brooklyn being overrun with trolley cars, all its citizens, including the ballplayers, were trolley-dodgers. The team's later name of Robins is pure tribute to the manager's enveloping personality. He is recognized wherever he goes in Brooklyn and willingly discusses managerial tactics with taxi-drivers, countermen, policemen, waiters. His tone in explaining his methods with these interlocutors is sometimes apologetic. He says: "My gosh! You should hear the bawling out I get from the wife when we lose a game...
Declared Father Walsh: "The Soviet Russian government in its own official documents has declared war against all humanity. It is at the front of a world-wide revolutionary movement which we cannot permit to overrun this country. . . . The Third Internationale is a union, association and amalgamation of all communistic groups with a solidarity of a common objective. You could say it is the Communist Party of all the world...
...authorities that be for Saturday morning at 9 o'clock in Sever 11 and the course was English 41. But some unscrupulous clique has decided to do away with this lecture, and do away with it in a secret and dank manner, so the place wouldn't be overrun with Vagabonds. But if a Vagabond wishes to overrun, he overruns, and that's that. The dastardly deed came to the ears of this Guardian of Vagabondia and today he exposes the whole thing. Bliss Perry will not lecture Saturday morning at 9 o'clock but he is to sing...
With some degree of trepidation the authorities of Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden, Mass, last week reopened the portals of their holy ground. During three weeks in November some 1,000,000 souls of every description had overrun the cemetery seeking the tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal...