Word: crowd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
...Prince Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him (TIME, Nov. 4). You heard the shot, saw the crowd swerve to pounce on the assassin. You saw the young Prince, his face tight as a drum, proceed to lay a wreath on a monument as though nothing had happened...
...game, although it is not one of Harvard's major battles, has attracted more than passing interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...
...regular four it is certain that they will see considerable action in today's game, thus giving Harvard an all-Sophomore backfield Wood, the general of the Crimson team and the principal cog in Harvard's now feared and famous aerial offense, will have the attention of the crowd focused on him. Since he was given his chance against Army the cool headed Sophomore has, because of his headwork and unerring accuracy on passes, become the mainspring of Harvard's attack despite the fact that he does not run with the ball...
While 50,000 or more people crowd the Stadium for the Harvard-Holy Cross tilt Harvard's Freshman eleven will climax season by battling the Yale first year team on the Second University field today. The opening kickoff of the contest is scheduled for 2 o'clock...