Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room on the sixth floor of the Washington Building (which also houses a nightclub, a liquor store, a nut shop, a division of the U. S. Treasury). At 11:15 each morning (10:15 on Saturdays), twelve to 15 of its 40 young members (only two are bald) gather on the floor to smoke, talk politics, discuss sporting events, occasionally trade in 40 stocks and nine bonds for their own or customers' accounts. Of the 49 listed securities, four account for 75% of the trading (Washington Gas Light common and preferred, Capital Transit, Mergenthaler Linotype). Some days there...
...into German-held France by British volunteer motorcyclists. Slipping across the Channel at night, in little trawlers and fishing smacks, they landed at deserted sectors of the French coast, rattled off inland in groups of 50. One raid, detailed to harass the German Army of Occupation, capture prisoners and gather information, went as far as Amiens...
...sickening nostalgia for the good old days of 1917-19, when America was young and innocent. No, Mr. Roosevelt, let's be realistic. Maybe we really will win, and maybe we won't go totalitarian. But can there be any doubt that the Clemenceaus and the Lloyd Georges will gather 'round again, that just as war hysteria is whipped up, so will be the hysteria of punishment for Germany? There will be an irresistible demand to lay the aggressors so low that they can never again threaten any democracy. A new and more terrifying Hitler will arise...
...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL-Willa Gather-Knopf...