Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred pounds of turkey have been ordered for dinner at Memorial Hall this evening in anticipation of the throng of students which the management expects to attend the meal that will mark the passing of the University Commons. Manager H. M. Wing told a CRIMSON reporter last night that he will be able to serve 400 men and he expects fully that number to be present. He fears that more may come...
...Dining Hall was informed of the reports which have been in circulation, he said that he would take up the matter of making special preparations for the closing meals with President Lowell. He held out hope for a special dinner for the evening, so the crowds who throng the commons tomorrow evening will sit at a festive board which may recall the days of old when delicacies were piled upon the tables for the men of '74 at the first meal Memorial Hall ever served, 50 years before its last...
...great throng that had laid aside its Christmas presents to come and see the spectacle articulated its joy in a vast bellow. On the field, the Southern Californians, the "Trojans," were lining up grimly. The Missouri "Tigers" lined up opposite. Referee Walter Eckersall piped his whistle. The kick-off soared. Bodies crashed. Sods flew...
...house so intently watched by the throng came some rabbis, slowly bearing a coffin. The thousands in the street set up a louder cry and surged toward the hearse for a last look at the remains of their holy man, their "Chief Grand Rabbi." Called Isaac Friedman, he had come to them in the spring, from Sadagora, Austria, he saying, they believing, that he was of the seed of David in the legendary Messianic line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried...
...distinction, 400, that sat down to dinner at the Gridiron Club (Washington, D. C.) for the annual disrespectfulnesses of the Washington newspaper correspondents. President Coolidge was led to a seat next the Club's president, William E. Brigham. Most of the President's Cabinet was scattered through the throng, all regardless of rank. Ambassadors passed the salt to Senators. Senators hobnobbed over their soup with the men who write, and who sometimes rip, them up from day to day. Bankers and ballplayers, Bandmaster Sousa, Governors Smith of New York and Cox of Massachusetts, publishers aplenty?all in the flesh, eating...