Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid the throng lame Hobbinol appear...
...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...
...weather forecast for today holds forth the dismal prospect of rain to the 80.000 people who will throng the Bowl at New Haven this afternoon...
...great hay bonfire was built after the Crimson players had left the field. With its dying embers the throng rushed to the Locker Building where the demonstration was continued for another half hour. "We'll beat Yale" was the outcry which surged up from the crowd incessantly...
...First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...