Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute, took to writing. His book, of biblical proportions, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, or an Objective Criticism of the Life of Man, recently completed, was translated from...
...brown trunk, was so full of woe that it required two men to lug it in to Senator Norbeck's bear-hungry Committee on Banking & Currency, still investigating the stockmarket (TIME, April 25 et seq.). When Congressman La Guardia opened the lid, out flew a flock of woes for Bulls, Bears and the financial press...
More than a little reminiscent of the using of that grand old hostelry, the Waldorf-Astoria, a flock of giddy girls and boys are celebrating their last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang...
...fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary...
Paris was on the verge of losing one of its chief showplaces. Tourists flock to the Opéra, ignorantly supposing that they will hear great performances. The building itself gave rise to the legend-the great colonnade, the marble-&-onyx staircase, the cellars awesomely described in The Phantom of the Opera. Performances at the Opéra are generally second-rate, the repertoire and staging oldfashioned. Senators and Deputies often get their discarded mistresses jobs dancing in the ballet, famed for its inferiority...