Word: throng
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...into the Yard dressed in finery like the cockiest London beau to see the carriages, chaires, and omnibuses of all description trundling into the village. Would seem the throng number over a thousand spectators. Now came C. Austin, Jr., all abubble, and with him on past the gate to watch the festivities. Saw Mr. Emery of Philadelphia, the oldest graduate present, looking very touched yet happy at the affair...
Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
...cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered she. Michigan's Dr. Dora H. Stockman read a poem she had dedicated to A. C. W. W. Last verse: Great God of all the nations, We come a mighty throng With hand clasped hand in greeting We sing a glorious song. A prayer for faith and courage, Peace and friendship's flag unfurled From the homes of every country, Country Women of the World...
...plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
...nigsberg one of his weepy moods overtook Orator Hitler. "Do you think this struggle has been easy for me?" he pathetically asked the throng. "It is consuming my nerves and my strength. I am not growing any younger. I realize that things which I once could do easily are painfully hard for me today...