Bloomsbury parties attracted an eclectic and distinguished crowd.
Butler won national attention by taking thousands of his men on long field marches, many of which he led from the front, to Gettysburg and other Civil War battle sites, where they conducted large-scale re-enactments before crowds of distinguished spectators.
He was given a state funeral; The Times wrote, "The crowd of distinguished men that accompanied him on his last journey amid the general sympathy of the public shows that the late composer was reckoned among the masters of his art".
VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL July 1-Aug 4. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic take turns serenading the crowds with a distinguished lineup of conductors and soloists playing orchestral favorites.
The local correspondent for The New York Times wrote that Benjamin, "a distinguished stranger", drew the largest crowds to the courtroom and "the Senator is making this terribly tedious case interesting".
Over the past several months, Pedicone and his administrators have clearly demoralized and disenfranchised the Mexican American Studies program and refused to attend three public forums in Tucson, which drew large crowds and featured panels of distinguished education experts on the program's decade-long mandate and documented success in alleviating the achievement gap for district students.
"There was always the most tremendous crowd around him, often of extremely distinguished people.
This negativity -- not pessimism, for which it was often mistaken -- distinguished him from his New England peers, an extroverted crowd that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott.
"Gen Allen is a distinguished marine, a hero and a patriot," she told the crowd.
The hand-painted ceiling features the distinguished duo's larger-than-life portraits hovering over the crowd in a let-them-eat-cake tribute to liquor-laced cupcakes.
