Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal morning dress, the Diet of Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
...straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When he does, he golfs or bowls a bit, but he prefers to gather his family at the piano for a sing, or to fix things around the house. His hobby is making furniture in his basement workshop. Mr. Smith bought his colonial brick house cheap because nobody had ever been able to make the plumbing and heating and wiring work right. He fixed them...
Paulette Goddard, in cerise bows and a drapy peasant costume, was putting in corn and chickens at her swimming-pooled New York State farm. She told a reporter about the chickens: "They're red . . . I gather eggs every day." She also has a strawberry patch, thinks that "everyone should take up farming; it's the right thing...
...speaker defines rondle as "gather together...
Around noontime his listeners gather at lunchrooms, gas stations, stores, and in Oklahoma's Indian schools to hear their program. They generally get a brief resume of what Joe Yellow Horse, Chauncy Matlock, Sleeping Rain or some other Indian boy is doing in the Pacific or North Africa. They hear the latest Indian gossip, news on Indian affairs, many a tall tale from an elder brave...