Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that June our Spring had seemed to throng Until the year was just a backward glance...
...William Mellon—with the help of three Nobel Prize winners, 200 chemists, physicists and engineers most of whom hope to become factory executives, and some 1,500 bystanders-dedicated a project which he conceived when he tried to improve his French 28 years ago. His French, he told the throng last week, "is still what it was originally." But his conception has become a huge, new, nine-story, splendidly equipped factory for research...
Many members of the Class of 1937, the first entering group under the present administration, are expected to throng 17 Quincy Street this weekend in their final chance as undergraduates to attend a Conant Sunday...
...keynote of pleasure came at a Manhattan night spot after a keen day of sport in the Litchfield Hills,--a keynote of country and city life combined. A chappie was entertaining the assembled throng telling about a golf game with one of his friends. It was a game where there'd been a certain amount of boozing before, and the caddie could dish one up from time to time. At the third hole, a short one of about a hundred yards, things were looping along...
During the founding of the Houses, when most of her kind were selling china bowls in summer tea-rooms or setting permanents in bustling beauty parlors, this lady stayed for from the madding throng, engaged in no less worthy a profession than that of undertaker. It was nice work, if you could get it, she often says, and even now she finds it impossible to break with the past. Her most treasured possession from the dear, dead days is her embalmer's license, which she faithfully renews every time it expires. When asked why, she replies wistfully, "Just sentiment...