Word: overrunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food & Fun. On their second night at Atlantic City the Governors frolicked at a big "Circus Fun-Fest" in the Hotel Traymore's main dining room, which was decorated like a circus tent, overrun with clowns, fake policemen, a menagerie of men in animal skins and three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When...
Thirty years ago, when Istanbul was Constantinople, visitors to the city found it as overrun with dogs as Hamelin was with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried to trespass on its territory. They littered the narrow streets with their droppings, were eternally underfoot, made the night loud with their yapping. But it was part of the Turks' religion to be kind to animals, and the dogs had been there since Constantinople was Byzantium...
...best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun with quail...
...House was advised that $892,960 was the cost in 1936 of the British Secret Service. This was "less than had been expected," and the ever-efficient Secret Service, far from having overrun its budget as Government departments are inclined to do, reported a tidy little surplus of $7,035. In so far as any British public man has to carry off the honors of being called ''head of John Bull's Secret Service" by such careful newsorgans as Manhattan's Herald Tribune, this duty is discharged by Sir Robert Gilbert Van-ittart, brilliant permanent Undersecretary...
...Sarah Lawrence was so breezily progressive that its suburban neighbors viewed it askance, protested when it began to expand beyond the Lawrence estate. They complained that students raced through town in fur coats and rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter enabling...