Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known throughout central Ohio as a soft touch for bums and loafers. They keep daughter Clara under strict surveillance, follow when she goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away...
Every Sunday, as many as 30 Casasolas gather at Doña Refugio's big table in suburban Mixcoac to criticize the week's output and argue sports and politics. This week they could take time out from table talk to toast a monument to family unity: Volume 22 of the Casasola Graphic History of the Revolution, 1910-1940. Into its making had gone some of the choicest pictures that three generations of Casasolas had contributed to the family archives (no Casasola uses the word "files...
...amateur satirist knows, the hordes of captains, majors, commanders and other brasshats stationed in wartime Washington had other and even more crushing duties than just winning the war. Reams of mimeographed balderdash had to be stamped IMMEDIATE ACTION and provided with desk space on which to gather dust. Rival service arms had to be watched for symptoms of credit-grabbing. Above all, callers with something to offer that might help win the war had to be given The Treatment: identified, badged and tirelessly "channeled" from building to building and service to service till they wound up in despair back...
...summertime campaign by the Law School Record for investigation of the Hygiene Department reached fruition last night with the formation of a University-wide committee to gather evidence and report on "whether the Department provides the best possible service for the fee charged...
Representatives from twenty-five boys Settlement Houses in the Boston area will gather at Phillips Brooks House this morning from 10:30 to 12:30 o'clock for a meeting of the United Settlements of Greater Boston...