Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GATHER FROM REPORTS SUBMITTED TO ME THAT BY ENERGETIC INTERVENTION YOU COURAGEOUSLY, AT THE RISK OF YOUR LIFE, SUPPRESSED ALL TREASONABLE MACHINATIONS AT THE OUTSET. YOU SAVED THE GERMAN PEOPLE FROM GRAVE DANGER. I THEREFORE CONVEY TO YOU EXPRESSIONS OF SINCERE, HEARTFELT THANKS AND APPRECIATION...
...making fast action stories without wasting too much money, a knack of originating trends. To Warner Brothers salesmen in Atlantic City last fortnight. Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...
...clock in the morning all athletically inclined members of the 25th class will gather on Soldiers Field for a program of field sports. These events will be supplemented by a swimming meet for fathers and sons in the swimming pool of the New Athletic Building at 10.15 o'clock...
Beneath the sullen sky, 70,000 Catholic priests, nun, 8 monks, seminarians, students, lay folk, Papal nobility and members of the Holy Name Society and Sodality of the Blesses Virgin Mary gathered along nearby streets to parade past the reviewers into the Stadium. They began marching. And suddenly the sun burst forth. It shone on the marchers, hotter and hotter. Not until they had watched the parade for three hours could Archbishop Curley and his party gather up their trains and skirts and swing in line to enter the Stadium...
...years of worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...