Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flags decorated the cities, parades were held, anti-French demonstrations flared. To a cheering mob of black-shirted Fascists ordered to gather before the Palazzo Venezia, Il Duce struck his usual defiant pose on the balcony, shouted: "The splendid victory of Barcelona is another chapter in the new Europe we are creating. General Franco's magnificent troops and our fearless legionnaires not only have beaten [Premier Dr. Juan] Negrin's government, but many others of our enemies are now biting the dust. Their motto was 'No pasarán,' but we did pass and I tell...
During the timeouts, the spectators gather about the bleeding players and listen avidly while the latter form their plots as they run their fingers across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim...
...reward, the Nazi Government "permitted her to take a lease" on the sumptuous Schloss Leopoldskron, near Salzburg, taken over from Jewish Max Reinhardt after Anschluss. During the CzechoSlovak Crisis she did yeoman service for the Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann...
...most gifted living women novelists are Virginia Woolf, Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Elizabeth Bowen. Among these, the most promising future belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart, she comes to the literary maturity promised in her other four-promised as far back, in fact, as the 205, when she published her first short stories in The Dial. Plain readers should find her coming-of-age as congenial as the most exacting critic...
Harvard's swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...