Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat annoyed youths who took it upon themselves to throw waste-basketfulls of water upon rowdy, raucous men in the streets who were disturbing the peace. The fun grew to larger porportions with the pelting of automobiles with larger quantities of water. This caused a small group to gather between Lowell and Leverett Houses on Plympton Street, a gathering which immediately grew to larger proportions as more water fell...
Professor Perry gave his support in the following terms: "So far as I could gather from eyewitnesses of the unfortunate affair at Charlestown, the police used excessive violence and little discrimination in handling a crowd made up almost wholly of innocent by standers or of persons present for the purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
...their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love platonically and when disappointed, sometimes lose their appetite, develop consumption...
...recalled him to Newark to take complete charge of their newspaper in fact if not in name. He was a crack Washington correspondent, would have made a crack politician. Alert, shrewd, tart, he took no windy nonsense from any Senator. From his desk in the Colorado Building he could gather news direct by telephone from practically every Government official in town except the President...