Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When tens of thousands of Roman Catholics go, from every land, to a Eucharistic Congress it is not to quibble over prayer-books, nor to hold intra-denominational forensics over matters of faith or morals, nor to establish the status of the ape in history. The Catholics gather for prayer. There can be nothing controversial about a eucharistic congress: at journalistic best it provides a spectacle, is "good theatre...
...pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this new doctrine of criminality will not deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring something home, and pay taxes on it. (e) I gather also that it is moral turpitude on my part to have managed large enterprises. The hope to rise from the ranks of labor to the ranks of management will, however, probably not be crushed from the heart of the American boy even by this onslaught...
...Story. Mother Concepcion, sinister, mysterious master mind, has long made it a practice to gather about her youthful impressionable idealists, wheedle them into fanatics, use them as instruments, her end being the deliverance of Mexico from "religious persecution...
...clergy, "I alone am responsible for my actions." Toral hinted that he had been inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop...
...marred the dignity of their protest. Many a spinner, wearying of charity, has reverted to the occupation of New Bedford's colonial days. Borrowing or building a boat, he has gone fishing, bringing in a catch he could market in the city. Gravely, the strikers' womenfolk gather in the streets to discuss the day's events in a babel of tongues. Never has the U. S. seen such a rebellion...