Krewes like Bacchus, founded in 1968, and Orpheus, founded in 1994 by the singer Harry Connick Jr., include celebrities, popular floats and generous "throws," the beads, aluminum doubloons and plastic cups that the crowds clamor for.

I want to make you feel that here is a place where the crowd does not clamor nor ill-winds blow.

And indeed, now a vast crowd clamored, drawn by the others, aching to advise their favorite swig, recommend some country site where it rained less and shone more sun than in all England or your South of France.

A headline in Augusta, Georgia read "Women Risk Life and Limb in Bitter Battle for Nylons" and went on to detail how crowds clamored into the store, knocking down shelves and displays along the way.

Chefs have moved on, and with increased local competition, the crowds are no longer clamoring at Pisces' door, but the food continues to be excellent.

The crowds were clamoring for the return of the man they called their Imam, and on February 1, 1979, Bakhtiar was forced to allow Khomeini to return.

Usually, the crowd clamored for Alia to answer their pitiful questions.