Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large audience will flock to the Peabody Playhouse," he continued, "not to see 'Sophie' because it is an interesting and artistic performance, but because it is a so-called risque play...
...real enthusiasm about painting, he must see great paintings. It is not sufficient to read books about them and study the subject of art wholly by means of photographic reproduction. It has certainly been our experience here that as we get more and better pictures at Harvard, the students flock more to the Museum and are increasingly enthusiastic. The students are not taught here that the art died with Giotto or even with Turner. On the contrary there are several pictures by Sargent, Willslow Homer, Dodge Macknight and other modern Americans in the Museum...
...year, but the margin of profit on every dollar also rose from 10.15 cents in 1922 to 11.60 cents in 1923. The remarkable thing about both these companies is their prosperity in boom and depression alike. In flush times, the poorer classes who ordinarily would not buy at all, flock to them; in hard years, buyers who, when prosperous, are willing to patronize more expensive stores, return to the chain stores to economize...
...case of a goose that might lay golden eggs, but doesn't, is less susceptible of deft solution. The railways are a whole flock of such geese. During the War they were seized and peremptorily ordered to lay twice a day. They could have as much food as they desired, but they might not leave the nest. And when the War was passed, this regimen had seriously impaired both the morale and the constitutions of the geese. The geese and the gooseherds cried for normalcy...
...flock of important one-man shows, mainly by contemporary Americans, graced the galleries of Manhattan...