Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murmur of traffic and a muffled clatter of Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table...
...Rexist throng, disappointing their leader with a turnout of only 5,000, fought with walking sticks to which they had secured razor blades. As fast as police drove Rexists from one square they would rush off down side streets shouting the name of the next square in which they proceeded to meet police charges. Sporadic shots killed nobody, but 78 were injured, nearly 300 briefly jailed...
...message with the addressee's name, the sender's signature. But Mr. Willever had not yet applied a special rate to the pre-fabricated telegram. It remained for the second summer of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 to provide that wrinkle. To the throng of sightseers Mr. Willever offered form telegrams of greeting to be delivered for 25? anywhere in the U. S. So successful was this stunt that this year all Western Union "fixed texts" were put on a fixed rate basis...
...Harrison Township on a brisk, sunny morning assembled what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community...
...these men, he pointed out, were not regimented out to compete for some team. "Today more than half of those who make up Harvard's athletic throng are not out for the organized teams...