Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOYLSTON HALL: Chinatown. Lots of transients gather here, and usually "bring their own." Chinese food unexcelled. Interesting monkey house on the roof...
Once a year in the full of the moon, according to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the amiable wolves of India gather in packs to pass judgment on the year's crop of cubs. Forth from their lairs and into the shadow of the great Council Rock the she-wolves nuzzle their young. If the cub is judged fit to run with the pack, all is well. If not, the she-wolf and her cubs henceforth hunt alone. And according to Rudyard Kipling that is poor hunting indeed. Last week in Manhattan, like the mother-wolves of India...
...this Republic for the 1933 honor? On the 19th inst. President Gomez completes 25 years of service to his country in that position, and on the day mentioned there is going to be national rejoicing, and in fact everywhere where Venezuelans and others who know this beautiful country gather together...
...chose were more than welcome to come. Although he should have known better, he was disappointed to find at the appointed hour a total of zero guests assembled to partake of his hospitality. Only by urgent messages to his intimate friends with Yale guests was he able to gather enough people willing to nibble at his offerings. --Yale Daily News...
Professor Copeland has been thinking about this orthographical problem since the early days of the Lindbergh trial, and was stimulated into action by a smug letter of justification from the Herald. So whenever students gather in his rooms he tells them about it, and quotes a significant passage from Edgar Allen...