Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
...throng burst into "The International," as Laborite George Lansbury, M. P., beat time jovially with his large bowler hat. With him stood the sole British Communist M. P., Shapurji Saklatvala, carrying a large bouquet of red roses for Mme. Rosengolz...
...Miss Laura Harlan,* onetime social secretary to Mrs. Harding, to Mrs. Coolidge. At the other end sat Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Between them sat Washington newspaper women, guests of Mrs. Coolidge at No. 15 Dupont Circle. Descriptions of the reception said that Mrs. Coolidge saw before her a happy throng of friendly faces...
President Coolidge. Many were the murmurs of concern that hummed from a vast throng of medical men and their families, gathered in a penetrating rain on the White House lawn. President Coolidge was to greet them; but the miserable weather might cause aggravation of the bad cold that had kept him confined to bed the fore part of the week. There was talk of dissuading him from the ceremony. However, the rigor of the weather did not deter the President. He appeared, bundled in a great raincoat, wearing sensible rubbers. Beside him posed Mrs. Coolidge, hale, gracious, benign...
...throng of anxious parents and a brass police band milled around on a dock in Hoboken last week. In floated the stubby Dutch liner Ryndam, her rails festooned with grins and sunburn...