Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purporting to be a photographic record of the latest Buck expedition to gather a shipload of creatures for the St. Louis Zoo, Wild Cargo is hardly more than an adroitly staged, carefully written continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which...
Educators from 13 colleges and 29 preparatory schools, both private and public, will gather at Harvard today to participate in a series of conferences on education, Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the School of Education announced yesterday. The discussions, which will last from March 9 to March 17, are under the auspices of the Harvard Teachers Association...
Ninety Harvard and Yale coaches will gather at a dinner on Saturday, March '31, in the Varsity Club, given in honor of the Yale coaching staff by the Harvard Coaches Club...
...Lost Patrol," one may gather, is no movie for a high strung female. Death, so discussed, without the comic relief of idiotic foamings and writhings, is at best a trifle unpleasant. And one is bound to remark that whatever the director has neglected, in his enlightenment, on the one end, he has made up on the other. As if carelessly, the reader is introduced to, and comes to like each of the characters. It is a hard thing to keep eleven men separate in a story like this, where all are equipped alike, and where the stars are bound...
Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...