Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketchy presentation of Mr. Rubenstein, it is only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather a more coherent representation of an artist's work...
Rarely, except at Presidential inaugurals, does the entire democratic hierarchy of the United States gather under one roof. But so they did last week, in the grey-&-gilt chamber of the House of Representatives, with remarkably few absentees-the President and his executive Cabinet, both bodies of the legislative branch, all eight members of the Supreme Court-to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first session of Congress...
...purpose of the committee is to gather books to aid in the "upbuilding of a center of intellectual life beyond the reach of the present invasion." The committee is going to concentrate upon books in the social sciences...
...diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage mobs who jabber and shriek. Music caterwauls off stage. Puffed-up actors recite puffed-up dialogue. Around a table covered with brass pitchers and pottery the King and his counsellors gather, looking like Armenians about to polish off some shish kebab...
...travel its due, he never missed an engagement. But in those 58 weeks, he "ran the entire gamut of airplane adventure except for being killed." He was gashed and kayoed when bumpy air over the troublesome Nittany Mountains conked him against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when his ship could not get its landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced landings and is one of the few air travelers who ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway...