Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Orthodox Church, in a down-at-heel section of St. Louis, Rev. Sophrony Balaban, with his neat black beard, his hefty frame, his genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone to St. Louis in 1918, remained for ten years...
...coincidence the cousin and uncle arrived on the same train. He was waiting for them, a cigar in one pocket, a package of Beechnut in another, and a determination in his mind to collect within short order the price of two tickets. He saw them descend from different Pullmans at the same moment. Rushing to the uncle on the right, he cried, "Wait a minute, Cousin Arthur is approaching on my left!" His uncle-by-marriage looked startled and gave the porter only a quarter instead of fifty cents. Already the Vagabond had raced one Pullman length and accosted...
...Well," she said, "I simply must have them. You see, I represent the state Y. W. C. A., and we ran a contest a little while ago, the winner of which was to get two good tickets to the Harvard-Yale game. The winners want to collect...
Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...followed soon after (with Joris Ivens, John Ferno, John Dos Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment of Fascism, to collect at one private showing of the film in Hollywood $15,000 for Loyalist aid. Though still less "proletarian" than "pro-underdog," this awakened political consciousness has undoubtedly broadened his field of interest, added welcome contemporaneity to his literary life. Last August he was off to Spain again as a correspondent...