Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hairpins & Toothpicks. Next morning, refreshed by a Russian breakfast of beer, schnapps, sausages, fried potatoes and more schnapps, we went out to see these Germans by daylight and found them like all Germans-shabby. Their faces were grey, for there is little soap for scrubbings. When they gather in crowds, as at the theater, they have a strong, sour smell. The Russian zone is not well fed, although it eats better than the American or the British...
Beginning at 12 o'clock, the American Veterans Committee chapter of Cambridge and Harvard, the Harvard Liberal Union, and other consumer groups and citizens, will gather at the south end of Cambridge Common and march to Central Square...
...acted arrogantly in the matter of the trolley-fare boost (from 7? to 10?). Thousands of San Franciscans signed. Lapham signed the petition himself-so the proposal could be put on the June 4 primary ballot, thus save the city the expense of a special election. Budde did not gather enough valid signatures in time, but he got them later; a special election was decreed...
...Pearson's Wilde is a skillful synthesis of earlier books, amended by such facts and opinions as he was able to gather at firsthand. "No one," he declares, "[has] yet attempted to reconstruct Wilde as a great character.. . . Far too much attention [has] been paid to his tragic story and nothing like enough to his delightful personality. . . . My intention [is] to take him out of the fog of pathology into the light of comedy, to restore the true perspective of his career...
...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...