Word: throng
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...after confessing his own inability to enjoy Wordsworth, announced that Mr. Lowes would lecture on the gentleman that morning. No one who heard the superb analysis of the Westmoreland poet, and later the reading of the Immortality Ode, would deny that the more undergraduates who care for beautiful letters, throng the benches of English 72, the better for them...
Before sitting down to write, Mr. de Valera had shouted to a Dublin throng, "Britain cannot frighten us!" These words were received with such enthusiasm that the President was swept in a friendly Irish way by the crowd through a picket fence...
...Mississippi mob took its cue from similar action earlier this month in Kentucky where a rowdy throng invaded Governor Laffoon's home at Frankfort in protest against a 1% sales tax passed by the House (TIME, March 14). Last week the Kentucky levy died when the General Assembly ended its session without Senate action...
...political prisoners will wear their own clothes in the jails of the Irish Free State. By the time this piece of work was done it was late at night. Early next morning an expectant Irish throng massed outside Arbour Hill Prison...
Paris had been extremely nervous lest Adolf Hitler win the German election and repudiate the Treaty of Versailles. Massed in the Place de l'Opera, a tense French throng awaited bulletins. Suddenly, when the flash came that Herr Hitler had definitely not been elected, a joyous French cheer went up "Vive Hindenburg! Vive la France...