Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge orators had taken up their stand Tuesday evening opposite Mechanic's Hall in Worcester where a Hoover rally was being concluded. As the throng of Hooverites filed out of the building shortly after the Harvard men had swung into action, the praises of Smith fell upon their ears discordantly. Believing if the most effective method of silencing their antagonists the Republicans began to shout loudly...
...November 23 and take part in the concert to be given there the night before the Harvard Yale game. Thirty-five musicians of the Clubs will make the trip, and join with the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs in presenting an extensive musical and vocal program to the footbal throng...
...Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...
...taken of the proceedings. It was regarded as uninteresting, futile, vulgar. On the tenth day the New York Evening Graphic published "doctored" photographs of contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving donations from the audience...
...throng had been caught unready, unorganized, out of its seats. The growing noise lacked spontaneity. It was a rumble, then a roar. It in no way resembled an explosion. But Nominator Me Nab saw that everything was going to be all right so he left the lectern completely and walked back to stand and watch amongst the seated members of the National Committee...