Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payroll. Now there are 3,000, of whom 1,200 are writers as distinguished from research workers, office assistants. They receive prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere. Now so highly organized that its officials boast that in a week it can gather the material for a guide to any Federal highway, in its early days the Project had its temperamental riffles. In Manhattan Poet Orrick Johns had his jaw broken by a literary longshoreman to whom he had refused a job. In St. Louis radical Novelist Jack Conroy (The Disinherited) went on strike. Along...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...
Famed among ministers as the man who suggested to Sinclair Lewis that he write a book about a minister, helped him gather material, and was appalled by the outcome, Elmer Gantry-Bill Stidger is big, baldish, hearty in the manner of preachers who did Y. M. C. A. work in the War. In the early days of radio he broadcast news from Detroit and still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently...
...bringing coals to Newcastle to point out that the Yale game is one of the important social occasions in the life of the University, as well as its premier athletic event. On the evening after the game countless Harvard graduates, their families, and friends gather, from near and far to mingle with students in their rooms, and celebrate the victory to which all are looking forward. To close these parties out at seven, if past experience is a guide, will be pouring water on flames of festivity still burning brightly and well, flames which should be allowed to burn longer...
Principal difficulty apparently rises from the inclusion of too many stars. As the play producer, Robert Taylor appears in a new suit in every other scene, but isn't really allotted time to gather momentum for any convincing love-making. Eleanor Powell has too few moments for her tapping specialty; George Murphy, singer of songs, finds himself trying rather unsuccessfully to follow Miss Powell's steps; Robert Benchley doesn't say anything really funny. Only Buddy Ebsen is himself, bit player and stealer of shows...