Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain drizzled upon the great Saski Square at Warsaw, drenched a pitiful old sorrel mare which stood sopping amid a shouting throng. Astride the mare sat a big man in an old and faded uniform. The rain trickled from the drooping ends of his mustache. Now and then he soiled his white gloves by patting the mare's neck. Sometimes he bent down to whisper in her ear and she whinnied in reply...
...dutiful son, he goes to "the racecourse on Long Island" (Jamaica) to see the world-challenging steed, Eclipse, race the Southern horse, Sir Henry, over no mere matter of furlongs but three four-mile heats, held half an hour apart. The crowd dwarfs even a modern world series throng, being estimated at 100,000. Shrewd hindsight permits the author to mark the event as foreshadowing a struggle that was to follow it in 40 years. It is the South against the North. Betting and feeling run high. Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting...
Thus spoke Premier Mussolini six weeks ago when the anarchist Gino Lucetti flung a bomb at him in Rome and missed him (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at Signor Mussolini. The bullet ripped away a piece of cloth from the Premier's coat, pierced the sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus which he wore, grazed the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna...
...University Theatre has not been entirely completed in its interior decoration, but will formally open at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon as scheduled. A special first week program has been promised by the management and it is expected that a record throng will witness the first public entertainment ever offered in the Square...
Tearful Valediction. That he might say a personal farewell to his followers Lord Oxford and Asquith journeyed to address a throng of Liberals at Greenock, Scotland. Before he spoke, the audience sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and cheered throughout his dignified address...