Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thuggish method of forcing passage through a throng. The hands are held clenched close to the chest, the elbows flexed and projected stiffly to each side of the torso. To move forward one jabs bystanders with the elbows and, as they wince, sidles through the opening...
People who came to see Fords or Cunninghams (pleasure cars) were disappointed. For reasons peculiar to their manufacturers these two were not displayed. Nor were displayed some of the heavier motor trucks-White, Mack, International, Pierce-Arrow, Diamond T.* Those in the jostling throng who could read had seen in the daily press the following figures relative to 1926 U. S. motor car production...
Those of the throng who knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...outside in the Yard between Holworthy and Grays Halls, between Harvard, Massachusetts and University Halls a great throng of two thousand young Harvard men had come together with spontaneous enthusiasm to see, to cheer, to hear the man about whom they had read so much, but seldom or never seen, the man whom they felt rather than Few realized until after it was all over and twilight had descended about the trees and old bricks of Harvard Yard that they had been present at the most notable assemblage ever gathered at the University, that it was to greet...
...ruffs and their sombre eyes in which still smoldered the last fires of the Inquisition. He liked them because, having banished the spirit, they were very near to life, but he liked better those saints who, having banished the flesh, had embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng the Prado at Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers...