Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Of Mice and Men), have...
When the aforesaid alumni gather in their clubs on cold afternoons with the wind and sleet driving outdoors and a tall amber glass at their side, their thoughts turn naturally to football. Obeying the dictum which is being laid down for all loyal alumni of the great American halls of learning, they don't say outright what's on their mind. None but the less uncultured of them, the ones who didn't get full benefit from the ivy, cloistered walls of Brown, say right out, "Let's get rid of this guy McLaughry...
...Browne) is a congenital fussbudget, Father Malcolm's (Morland Graham) absentmindedness verges on the sublime, Daughter Frankie (Rosalyn Boulter) suffers from vestal restlessness, piano-playing Brother Dudley (Arthur Macrae) spouts Noel Coward and badgers stuffy Brother Claude (Richard Warner), who builds houses and does setting-up exercises. Clouds gather over the breakfast table when Gladys, the maid (Moya Nugent), is found crying near the sausages and Frankie reports she saw Claude coming out of the girl's room. Two acts and a fortnight later, just in time for the arrival of much-discussed and dreaded guests, the domestic...
...group of about 350 first class men listened to the three addresses as they smoked corn cob pipes in what corresponds, but only a very little, with the famed Freshman Smoker. Afterwards beer was served in an informal got-to-gather with faculty and student leaders...
...Game. Covering Spain is like covering a courthouse and not being able to get inside the courtrooms when anything exciting is happening. Faced with this problem, the correspondents had to develop a routine of their own. Since a few correspondents individually could not gather enough news, they have learned to cooperate. Whether at the Novelti bar in Rightist Salamanca or in the cafes of Madrid, reporters now congregate to exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away...