Word: throng
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...throng there was an observed exception. General Dawes . . . maintained intact his trousers. No doubt this addiction to trousers is a personal foible. Shall any then blame General Dawes? . . Of course not. . . . Let us more properly pay a tribute to the personal courage which consorts so well with his military rank, for it needs valor to become voluntarily the target of every glance...
...Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite, the verb transvestize, the adjective transvestile, the adverb transvestily. Example: 'Transvestizing herself she became transvestile so transvestily that she may fairly be called a transvestite...
From the diningroom walls, President and Mrs. Coolidge, in oils, gaze coolly down upon the throng. (Taft and Wilson are in the foyer; Roosevelt in the hall. All the Presidents except Harding hang somewhere in the White House...
...guard in blue whistles for a cab and off, to the immense admiration of the throng of mere tourists waiting outside, goes the Job-Seeker...
...Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...