Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theresa Rummel, 82, sat in a front pew and wept while her son, the Right Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, was consecrated Bishop of Omaha, Neb. Besides Mrs. Rummel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, held a throng of church dignitaries - Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, three Archbishops, eleven Bishops, 49 Monsignori and not many less than 1,000 priests...
...beginning to have visions of forty days ceaseless rain. The natural impulse under those circumstances was to don white flannels, exhume racket and spheroids, and travel as swiftly as possible to Soldiers Field; and exactly this was done by students whose number might without exaggeration be described as a throng...
Last Friday saw such a throng gathered in discontented attitude outside the Locker Building gate, for track had usurped the Stadium, to the exclusion of all else from the whole expanse of Soldiers Field, Likewise, on the morning of Memorial Day, the gates were closed with triple steel, and those who had ventured onto the Business School courts shortly beat a forced retreat. Each Sunday, too, the inevitable congestion of the University's tennis resources is increased appreciably by limiting to a few hours the time...
...biggest crowd ever seen in Christie's auction rooms assembled last week for the first day of the auction of the late Sir George Lindsay Holford's collection. The throng included Dutch bidders eager to retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went...
...misdoings excel in rigor that demanded by the public of those who have committed the crime of becoming famous. Ridden through the city in an open car in the rain, surrounded by vociferous mobs whenever they dared show their faces, and finally forced to escape a throng of their well-wishers by a service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus mirabilis" with repeated offerings of heroes...