Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message from the skies, he opened a wonderful new field for advertising. The success of his parachute, a home-made product, advertised the parachute. The flaming tights did the rest; for they drew such a crowd that shop windows and iron railings along the street were broken. To this throng the aviator advertised by word of mouth a department store, an eye doctor, whose card he wore on his chest, and himself, whose card he passed around, as Lieut. Hubert Julian, M.D., the M.D. being translated by the lieutenant to mean mechanical draftsman. How much more effectual it would...
...represents beauty to the multitude, and to the multitude beauty is too often artificial flowers, but how important to them! Mr. Guest's poems will be forgotten tomorrow; but as ballads of the times they cannot be neglected. His collected poems, under the revealing title The Passing Throng, will be published this season. All along Main Street men who never even heard of Robert Frost will be reading Edgar A. Guest...
Last Friday, before a crowded throng of Lenten worshippers in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop Manning said: "We are at the threshold of a great religious awakening, of earnest inquiry and of living faith in our Lord Jesus Christ...
Already Egypt is influencing fashions and thought today as the classic ideal permeated western civilization in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Egyptian exhibits have become the center of interest for those who have suddenly begun to throng the museums. The latest styles of dress, as the unfailing barometer of interest, are modeled upon Egyptian patterns. Scandal and murder have been driven from the front pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel...
...Dotheboy's Hall are not recorded as returning to their "alma mater" for reunions nor as crowding the roads to Yorkshire on the way to championship rugby matches. Where-as today will bring thousands of "old grads" back to Yale and will see the reunion of a similar throng of Harvard men in and around the Bowl...