Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First out at the White House door was hatless Edsel Ford. Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family...
...presence of a throng of about 250 spectators the impressive ceremonies connected with the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial were held yesterday morning. At 11.10 o'clock Mrs. Widener and Mrs. Lowell, accompanied by President Lowell, and Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, entered the building grounds, and were followed by the procession of the members of Phi Beta Kappa...
Penitents, marching barefoot over the cobbles, were more numerous than usual, many kept going until their feet were bruised and bleeding. On the eve of Good Friday the stately Madonna, Our Lady of Solitude, was carried into Seville Cathedral amid absolute, prayerful silence by the vast throng. Present on Palm Sunday as the Generalissimo's representative, was usually loud "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, silent for once. He had walked for five hours in one of the mystic Holy Week processions...
...their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands of former supporters of Kurt von Schuschnigg in the throng of 25,000, their cheers were not entirely without significance...
...Teutonic throng burst into a wild ovation at the portion of the speech devoted to Jews. In very coarse language a pledge was given by the Feldmarschall that within three years Vienna will be a city composed exclusively of Aryans...