Word: overflows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in the same class [as Pearson]. Pegler is not performing a service now, though I suppose in the early days of his union muckraking...
...hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder. But it was still having trouble solving the multitude of other new problems-sanitation, housing, hospital facilities...
...unexpectedly heavy demand by seniors is expected to be repeated in the lower classes. This will mean in all likelihood that juniors and sophomores will share sections 35 and 36 with the overflow being out in sections 28 and 29 at the other end of the field. Freshmen will probably find their seats in the colonade...
Soprano Margaret Truman, bedizened with full stage makeup, opened Atlanta's concert season by packing every one of the Municipal Auditorium's 5,000 seats, plus 100 chairs placed in the orchestra pit for the overflow...
Actress Madeleine Carroll crashed the taboo against women in Lamont Library yesterday when she visited it to tell an overflow audience in the Forum Room how much she hated Hollywood...