Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only paid festival performer among the chorus of 69 and the orchestra of 43 was Conductor Gastone Usigli. The chorus, mostly townspeople, had rehearsed weekly since September, but not until just before the festival did Usigli gather, orchestra and chorus together for an exhausting rehearsal. Says he: "Community singing is fine, but it is best for Christmas carols. A local chorus can do Gilbert & Sullivan, but the B Minor Mass-ah! that is another matter. I have to extract something from these young people that they never knew they had. Sometimes I think that if they make love...
...rate, her comfortable interior soon filled the gap, and until the end of the year, Esmerelda heard no harsh words. Sometimes a small line would gather patiently on the lawn outside, waiting for a chance...
Pechet's statement came in answer to the request last week of almost half of Lowell's 300 diners that the no-coat-removal be repealed. He quoted House-master Elliott Perkins '23, who specified that the dining hall was a place for gentlemen to gather...
...plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back to her beat...
Midnight Taxes. The Nationalists did hold the major cities and rail lines of North China. But the Communists ruled the countryside. They had the best chance to gather North China's summer crops. The Government could not even protect at night some of the villages it controlled by day. Near Peiping last week, a 70-year-old Chinese farmer complained that the Communists had come by night, three times in the past month, to collect "taxes." Had he reported this? "Heavens, no," said the old man, "the Communists would cut my throat the next night...