Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high speed. Elephant raging, saw his coming, cowed, careened and fled in haste, Trumpeted loudly, sought the river, riven ears weren...
Thus for a long hour continued the most impressive, most authoritative appeal which the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church can make to God Almighty. At last, with the mighty work performed, Pope Pius dismissed the stupendous throng which had now swelled to 60,000, with the Apostolic Benediction ending: "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth...
...Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried: "We began here 50 years ago, and always we'll go on. Hallelujah...
...embers the spectators and Business School buildings, which were to the leeward of the raging inferno. Bright, sporadic flashes of newspaper photographers' powder charges lent a Fourth of July twist to a typical New England winter night. By 1.05, half a dozen hardy firemen drew a cheer from the throng when they struggled on the lean-to roof behind the central section of the doomed building carrying with them hoses and axes to attack the fire from close range...
...their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests an importance they do not deserve...