Word: swarmming
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...figure. Tall, pink and portly, with a mane of grey-white hair curling over his collar, he was dressed in a long-coated black suit, a boiled white shirt fastened with gold studs, a black bow tie, and mirror-shiny black boots. As he pushed his way through a swarm of newshawks and photographers Tom Connally of Texas, whose appearance reminds some of an oldtime Shakespearean actor, cried out sonorously: "Make way for liberty...
...readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...
...filthy, tattered flotsam of Calcutta's normal beggar population has always shocked the Westerner. Today thousands of refugees are streaming into the city from starving Bengal villages. Men, women & children swarm about hotel garbage cans, clawing hungrily over heaps of offal that spread a sickening pall of stench for blocks; Calcutta's hospitals, with beds for only a small percentage of the city's sick, report a score or more of starvation deaths daily. Private agencies feed 62,000 destitutes each day, cannot keep pace with the influx...
Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
...years the biggest U. S. summer school has been Columbia's, where thousands of schoolteachers become students again for a six-week term. Last week, as usual, a swarm of teachers, mostly women from small-town schools, made a bee-loud glade of the precincts of Teachers College. But this war season is not as most sum mers on Morningside Heights...