Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first open break between the newspapers and the radio came several months ago when the news services forbade Lowell Thomas, he of the large following, to use news items furnished by these companies. Like a father encouraging industry in his child, they declared that he must gather the items himself. They created the impression that he had been a very diligent parasite. When they saw that he was not materially hindered by their ultimatum, the moguls decided that even more drastic measures were in order. The next step was a decision to forbid all news broadcasts, but a compromise...
Every man who wishes to compete should sign his name as soon as possible on the entry list posted at Leavitt & Peirce's. Final instructions will be given to all contestants at Glen House where they will gather at 9 o'clock on the morning of the race...
Cambridge Boy Scouts will gather in the University Theatre on Saturday at 12 o'clock to listen to President Roosevelt's nation-wide message to the organization, which is scheduled to be broadcast at that time...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli...
...accruing to the college from having the reading room open in the evenings are far outweighed by a light bill of $100. Perhaps Mr. Tillinghast and the Library officials will persist in feeling so. It is a conviction to which they are entitled. But one fears that it will gather them few laurels in the name of reason...