Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there be two dances the same crucial evening. Let the one be in Memorial Hall and the other in the Union. Let the general run of "representative" Juniors, attend the function in the festive atmosphere of Memorial Hall. Let those whom one likes to look upon as fellow-mortals gather together in the exclusive Union after due selection by a select committee of those "whose names are withheld by request...
...that can be found in New York. ... If the builders . . . paint the bridge black it will be scarcely visible. ... It will lose all its gleaming beauty. It will be humdrum and ugly. Now, when the sun sets, the red bridge is glorified into burning scarlet. When the storm clouds gather, the red gleams through the threatening darkness in unequalled splendor. Rising beyond the solid green of Central Park, the gorgeousness of the rich red hue is heightened." Artist Barclay, apostle of scarlet magnitudes, is not so famed as a John Singer Sargent or a Joseph Pennell. But more millions...
...painted like Old Gold cigarette packages, chrome, white and red. The Psychological Clinic, as it is called, contains a lecture room, reading and meeting room, waiting room, four consultation rooms, and two experimental rooms. On two afternoons a week students and instructors and a few practising physicians of Boston gather in the meeting room where, like flies on the wall, the framed countenances of the founders of modern philosophy and psychology leer down upon us, austerely critical. It is a livable house with no mammoth marble columns to remind us of the Roman Parthenon or the First National Bank...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late hunter-President, arrived last week in Rangoon, sojourned with Governor Sir Charles Innes of Burma, prepared to push on into the jungle, there to hunt big game and gather strange specimens...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...