Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entourage was to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Hopson Lawyer William A. Hill. There was no answer to their knock and the manager opened the room to prove it empty. As they left the hotel a newshawk spotted Mr. Hill telephoning in a booth. In full cry the pack swept across the lobby, carrying curious bystanders with them. The embarrassed lawyer retreated into the bar, where he accepted a contempt citation from Mr. Jurney, said he did not know where his client was but when they met would tell him that the Senate of the U. S. wanted...
...organize a coalition. It turned out that Professor Aalberse would have to take five Communist Deputies into coalition to get a majority, and from such Bolsheviks the Catholics instinctively recoiled. Back in as Premier popped Calvinist Colijn. Last week aroused Dutch opinion was branding the Catholic Party as a pack of villains or fools responsible for the flight of 131,000,000 hard, heavy, gold guilders from The Netherlands Bank...
...went to Davis Tuttle, perceptive, philosophical columnist of the Caldwell Record of Lenoir, N. C., for what Country Home considered "the grandest piece of individual thinking and writing we have come upon for years": "Last night I thought I heard a pack of foxhounds running, but as the sound came nearer I realized it was a flock of wild geese flying out of the north...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to order Editor Tu Chung-yuan of New Life punished to the extreme limit of Chinese law in cases of defamation. In Shanghai last week these Japanese orders were carried out by a cringing panel of Chinese judges, scared to death because 200 Chinese students pack-jammed their courtroom, shrieking "There is no justice in China! Death to our judges! Down with Japanese Imperialism! Long live Chinese Communism...
Such caution served only to increase Oregonians' respect for Chancellor Hunter's qualifications. Fervently they hoped that so impartial a referee might quell their dogfight, set the pack once more upon the trail of learning...