Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marseille last week Orator Daladier burst out against the Communists in a speech aimed to gather as much support as possible from all other French Parties: "One party can say to me that it always favored an uncompromising attitude, even should that lead to war. . . . That is, the Communist Party! The violence and intransigence of this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate...
...took all her patience. Main trouble was that, like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...
...conceived a stunt to dramatize these facts. Dr. Lee, a former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments, but nowhere did the superintendents find a complete, effective program...
...Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down...
...well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans back at them." The mysteries and wonders which Naturalist Beebe unearths-his realization that his world of human beings...