Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine and an Italian spirit that can stand much privation...
...gold & silver reserve in the Treasury. To hear Father Coughlin expound this theory, 18,000 New Yorkers packed into Madison Square Garden's Auditorium. Just before the meeting the box office dropped the price of $2 seats to 50?, thus ruining speculators who had loaded up. Nevertheless, an overflow crowd of 5,000 was waiting before loudspeakers in the basement...
Priest Coughlin's much-heralded first appearance, in Detroit last month, was generally accounted a near-flop (TIME, May 6). Prepared for an overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
Faced with his audience's intoxicating overflow, Priest Coughlin overflowed. Time & again, egged on by thunderous applause, he departed from his text to touch new heights of abuse, imprecation, braggadocio...
...last two innings of the April game were played under protest by Princeton. The controversy resulted from the interpretation of a ground rule by the umpire when the catcher's throw in an attempt to catch a runner off first base went into an outfield overflow crowd...