31.   He dropped to his knees, stretched out his arms and worked the crowd like a gospel singer.

32.   He speaks briefly, works the crowd, climbs the stairs, closes the door, takes off.

33.   He probably never saw these two work a crowd.

34.   He remembered a client who had learned as a young girl, a daughter of a politician, to be a gregarious glad-hander always working the crowd.

35.   He was working the crowd as an elf for the Volunteers of America, taking instant pictures of passers-by posing with the more or less jolly old gent.

36.   He works crowds instead of stalking past them.

37.   His father, Chris, is a state senator who says that politicians have to work a crowd.

38.   He worked the crowd like a politician, shaking hands with fans down the right-field line and waving.

39.   I can work any crowd.

40.   Hundreds of people had gathered to watch him vote, and he worked the crowd, shaking hands and embracing old friends.