Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday evening at 8.30 o'clock, the foreign students of the University are to gather for the first meeting of the International Council, which is to be organized on a less formal plan than in former years...
Last week's troubles originated with a strike in October of students at Damien Agricultural School, whose "bonus" allowances the government had reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial...
Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...
...second CRIMSON competition of the year will get under way tonight at 7 o'clock, when candidates for the four departments of the paper will gather in the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street...
...they escape notice they gather suddenly around the Sacred Flame and vent their spite in an effort not only to profane but to extinguish. With tolerance and discretion the Government of France ignores and hushes up such incidents. An official hastily re-lights the gas and the Sacred Flame is supposed to burn again as pure as ever at Paris. In Brussels, however, a far different attitude was taken last week by Most Catholic and beloved King Albert...