Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Yard dressed in finery like the cockiest London beau to see the carriages, chaires, and omnibuses of all description trundling into the village. Would seem the throng number over a thousand spectators. Now came C. Austin, Jr., all abubble, and with him on past the gate to watch the festivities. Saw Mr. Emery of Philadelphia, the oldest graduate present, looking very touched yet happy at the affair...
...marvel to see the church so crowded, the galleries filled with the beauteous ladies of the Commonwealth. Came then events of no great importance until the rendering of a fine ode by a gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina. The first line was, "Fair Harvard, thy sons to thy jubilee throng," but the remainder has slipped my befuddled mind...
...evening to see more gaiety with Mr. Pickett, the merchant, and his lively daughter, Rose. The college buildings lighted to proclaim the occasion and Cambridge filled with visitors. A marvel it was to see the throng a happy yet well-mannered. Austin, Jr., along again, and back with him to Hollis before the curfew telled at ten. Soon into bed, tired from merry-making, to dream dreams of purlian ancestors founding a "schoale or college...
Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
...cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered she. Michigan's Dr. Dora H. Stockman read a poem she had dedicated to A. C. W. W. Last verse: Great God of all the nations, We come a mighty throng With hand clasped hand in greeting We sing a glorious song. A prayer for faith and courage, Peace and friendship's flag unfurled From the homes of every country, Country Women of the World...