Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope. During August it received more orders than during July. Operations lagged at 14.26% of capacity. U. S. Steel Corp. ended the month with a gain of 3.293 tons in unfilled orders. This increase was the first in 17 months. Steel men seemed confident that operations will slowly gather momentum in the coming weeks although even a 100% gain would leave most companies...
...mesa. But all of their offspring were snakes. The Hopi drove the snake children into the desert. They returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from the Hopi. Year after year corn withered on its stalk. Finally the Hopi sent out scouts to gather all the snakes they could find. They washed the snakes, made them the centre of a religious ritual and sent them away. The grateful snakes told their fellows, who asked the gods to send rain to the Hopi, which the gods did. Ever since the Hopi have honored snakes...
...small but increasingly respectable group of U. S. historico-pastoral novelists (some of them: Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, T. S. Stribling. ''Maristan" Chapman), Author LeRoy MacLeod is not smallest or least respectable. The Years of Peace, his second novel, is quietly & fully written. Like any well-told story of the past, it seems truer than history...
...charity. With her four children, Sigrid Undset, now 50, lives in a house over 900 years old on the shore of a lake in the valley of Lillehammer, Norway. When she looks up from her writing, she sees on her desk a photograph of U. S. Authoress Willa Gather. Other books: The Master of Hestviken, Jenny, Krist
...these "three new stories of the West" Author Gather's readers may be surprised by discovering none of the pastel coloring of Shadows on the Rock. They are more in the tone of Author Gather's earlier books?My Antonia, A Lost Lady. With the rest of Author Gather's work, they share the charm of an artistry that is warm, simple and intelligent, the charm of a writer who feels about her characters somewhat as Doctor Burleigh feels about old Neighbor Rosicky: "The doctor picked up his stethoscope and frowned at it. ... He wished it had been telling tales...