Word: crowd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-school education and law degree at night schools. He had climbed to the city clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty. To protect him from Curley's reprisals for taking the post, the Massachusetts state legislature voted him the city clerk's job for life (at $8,000 a year...
Almost everyone in the area found himself in a crowd last night, but neither the crowds nor the police who were ready to handle them were excited or worried...
...ersatz Herman Hickman grinned foolishly and wagged his yo-yo at 2000 rally-goers last night as head cheerleader Jerry Liebman 50 presented "the biggest parade crowd I've ever seen" with the first gagged-up rally in recent years...
...crowd also saw three mop-haired reserve players growl at the microphone, watched Hugh Shepley '51 juggle, yelled for a speech from Duke Sedgwick's female cousin, and cheered the varsity at two rally sites--first Soldiers Field and then the Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop triangle...
...least the car owner can take some solace in the unofficial news that New Haven police are planning to waive almost any parking violation offenses in town tonight and tomorrow night. The gendarmes just can't compete with the crowd...