Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen pugilists pounded their way through the preliminary round of the University boxing tournament yesterday in the Indoor Athletic Building before an enthusiastic throng...
When in 1933 aged Trouper Paderewski walked stiffly up to a piano in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to play the last concert of his 19th U. S. tour, most of the throng of 20,000 believed they were hearing him for the last time...
...huff over a salary cut. Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring they had heard since he last sang in Manhattan...
...stocky Livornese tenor named Galliano Masini. When he raised the roof in Tosca and La Gioconda (TIME, Dec. 20, 1937). General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera House heard about it, signed him up. Last week Tenor Masini's Manhattan debut packed the Metropolitan with an expectant throng. Singing his favorite part, Edgardo in Lucia, Masini failed to make quite as high a mark as he had in Chicago. Critics found him no Caruso but a younger, fresher, less-seasoned Giovanni Martinelli...
...high table are faced with the unsavory situation of majority oppression. At Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop the inconvenience which House dinners cause the students not sitting at the high table counteracts the theoretical academic benefits. At quarter past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush...