Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locked themselves in their offices, how would the latter have any idea of the organization that they are running? The reason Mr. Bingham is so often seen at Soldiers Field is, first, that he wants to see the sports from the boys' and coaches' point of view rather than gather his impressions from erroneous letters to the CRIMSON, and second because of his natural interest in athletics, having been Track Captain among other athletic activities when here at college...
...during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Then the delegates drifted off home, leaving only a scattered 800 to gather in vast Convention Hall to hear the Pastoral Letter which always ends an Episcopal Convention...
...British). Director Robert J. Flaherty (Moana of the South Seas, Nanook of the North) is the cinema's No. 1 specialist in elemental-struggle-for-existence sagas. When he heard that the Aran Islands, off the Galway coast of Ireland, were so barren that the inhabitants had to gather soil in baskets to grow potatoes in crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish folk songs...
...Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
Meanwhile, honest Editor Moley has also become the most famed Manhattan diner-&-winer. Last week he was busy explaining that he had not been dining secretly with business leaders as the President's contact man, but solely as part of his journalistic job. Said he: "The impressions I gather from my various contacts I make use of in weekly editorials, and these can be read by members of the Administration. In this way and no other am I serving as a means of contact...