Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India, with a pink muslim toga, which he called "The Robe of Light," looped up on his left shoul der and fastened there with a jeweled pin, an ancient Buddhist priest trod the deck of an ocean liner in New York Harbor. At his feet sa a throng of disciples, catching words of wisdom and blessednes as they fell. Crowding closer cam newspaper reporters, to whom tn ancient one declared that his name was Avagarika Hewarritaina Dharmapala, the central portion of which meant "wanderer," which was what he liked best to be called...
...power and collegiate" appearance will be of fered to 150 students in the University and neighboring colleges, when "The Poor Nut" opens at the Hollis Street Theatre on January 11. The play, which is advertised as "of the College" contains as its chief thrill, & track meet, during which a throng of undergraduates cheer the hero on to greater efforts...
...first demure applause rippled over the throng; then as the Pope neared in a soft sway the faithful fell to their knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads of his children. So passed the glorious personage gowned in white and gold,* crowned with the jeweled triple tiara, with the Papal pectoral cross hung from his neck...
...possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes' arrival, before an immense throng of royalty, nobility, ambassadors and Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take the red hat!), and each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned...
...Manhattan, loud, vituperative John Roach Straton told a vast throng that crowded the Calvary Baptist Church what he had beheld one morning in Chicago. Two holdups, no less?two foul crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman...