Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House serves 1150 people hundreds of gallons o tea each week. On Tuesday afternoon, the Cruft wives, whose husbands are working on hush-hush stuff at the Cruft laboratories, gather for the India drink, and their husbands join them in an outgoing tea at the end of the course. The Navy wives have their tea on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Union. Research groups have teas once or twice a month...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...
...might gather from this that E. L. is a quick-witted character, and be entirely right. But even his wits couldn't handle the confoozin' situation he got into the other night, which we hope you will think is also amoozin'. Briefly, Ed had at different times six tickets to legitimate shows in town only to wind up by taking his girl to a movie...
Said Gunner Tefft, now recuperating from wounds at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif.: "Every night [the natives] would gather around us and we took turns reading the Bible. They sang songs which we knew, such as Red River Valley and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. When we left them, they were beginning to learn When Johnny Comes Marching Home. The only thing that brought us back was faith. You can tell the world that I am now a devout Christian...
...Vatican radio (still unsilenced by the Nazis) fortnight ago broadcast an important reminder, authorized by Pope Pius XII, to Roman Catholic laymen. In case of bombing or other wartime emergencies it is the duty of Roman Catholic laymen to rescue the Host from the altar or to gather up any Hosts or pieces of Hosts which may have been blasted to the sanctuary floor. Normally only priests and deacons are supposed to handle the Blessed Sacrament...