Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Father." Cardinal-elect Villeneuve cares for the second oldest see in North America, the one Writer Willa Gather made famous in Shadows on the Rock. His election as archbishop made certain his appointment as cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape...
...This year the 72-year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing chords...
Article 123: "All Germans have the right to gather in meetings peaceably and unarmed without announcement or particular permission...
...been marked for its informality, and this spirit still continues, not only in the relations between the Master, Tutors, and students but among the latter themselves. Except for the weekly meeting of the Tutors for lunch on Wednesday, there is no special seclud- ed spot for them to gather at meal times, and at all meals they are to be found dining with undergraduate members of the House...
...second box brought 275 more white feathers. "Neither consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came from a women's college." Meanwhile 25-year-old Lord Stanley of Alderley and five other members of the Oxford Union appealed to life members all over Britain, urged them to gather on the night of March 2 and wipe their Union clean by voting to expunge the pacifist resolution from its minutes...