Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow night the Democratic youth of the Boston area will gather at the historic Fanueil Hall for a rally to mark the Youth Day which was declared by the President. After a program of speeches the celebrants will hear President Roosevelt's talk over a loud speaker system...
...hobbyhorses of Weber overtures when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel, and why such a conscientious musician as Koussevitzky will in concert after concert stick to Sibelins's first two symphonics, the weakest of them all, and let the greatest, the Sixth and Seventh, gather dust on a shelf...
...rest. . . . This custodian of the nation's culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale...
...urged mothers to gather their families together on great national holidays--Independence Day or Lincoln's birthday--and read them the "sacred words of the Declaration of Independence, or the Gettyzburgh Address" as the living creeds of our American faith...
...when he first decided to make lecturing his career after a spell as newshawk and instructor in English at Princeton, he was helped along by Dale Carnegie, who even then was busy making friends & influencing people. After being sent to Europe on a quasi-official Government mission to gather material for a propaganda talk, he came back to the U. S. in 1919 with the necessary facts & photographs for a series of four shows. Once again Friend Carnegie was helpful in getting the material into shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales...