Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briand is the master parliamentarian of Europe. He knows when to yield even his peace policies?temporarily. As his famous 'cello voice swelled out over the agitated throng Senators were gradually lulled. In the end they cheered the Master to the echo...
...observer watches a vast throng pushing through an amusement district. By the law of averages he knows that a certain proportion will attend one theatre, other proportions other theatres. But he cannot tell which person will enter any particular theatre. Many of the people themselves could not enlighten him. Whim or the pressure of the crowd might change their direction...
...destroy patriotism and reverence for our heroes is bad, to blast the happy counterfeits that throng the precious memory of childhood is still worse, but to remove the stock and stay of the Latin Quarter is unutterable. Art galleries, painters, dowager dilettantes, lily fingered aesthetes, all down in one cataclysmic head. It must...
...banners of the marching, milling throng appeared such strange devices...
...cheerful throng of $10,000-per-year men was converging last week upon Washington. After all had arrived safely they would take their 531 seats and answer to their 531 names as members of the 71st Congress, third session, sitting...