Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word for it. Jazz was that raggedy music they used to play about 1920. Nowadays, jazz must be classified according to who's playing it. I call...
...outlook isn't brilliant for those who have neither instruments nor radios. There's nothing for them except parlor games like the one where a group of enthusiasts gather together and see who can listen to the "Jazz At The Philharmonic" Album Number Three the longest without screaming. Oh yes, if three dollars are available any given Saturday, you can always hear the Football Band's trumphet section give out with its "fight" cheer...
Every evening 10 to 15 students gather in Little Hall and proceed by car to the districts where Democratic candidate Martha Sharp is campaigning to unseat Republican House minority leader Joe Martin, and Oliver S. Allen, Law School '35, is contesting Edith Nourse Rogers' seat...
...church is thrown into the Pope's holy war on the Kremlin, the Roman Church is running the great risk of finding itself in a few years fighting with the Russians for the possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist...
Although you can factually disprove the contentions that Merchant Seamen were overpaid, it is much harder to gather facts about slacking, draft-dodging and the other uglier vices attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union...