Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barrani the Italians halted to gather themselves for the push to Mersa Matrûh, where Cleopatra used to bathe in the blue sea waves. No sooner had the Italians settled down than the R. A. F. from the air and the Royal Navy from the sea began harassing them. Well acquainted with the lessons of Lawrence in Arabia and Allenby in Palestine was the British Commander, Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 57, who knows the Middle East like the knuckles on his own hand. He sent his men to work on the un-camouflaged Italian camps with...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More...
...Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones, get little chance to hear how their work sounds. Last week Yaddo held its sixth long-haired jam session, officially called a Music Period...
Portugal's primitives, hidden in isolated monasteries and village churches, were soon forgotten. But recently Lisbon's National Academy of Beaux-Arts has begun to gather them. Last month Portugal celebrated its 800th birthday, its 300th year of freedom from the temporary domination of Spain. Lisbon's Academy of Beaux-Arts decided to celebrate with an exhibition of 319 paintings by Portugal's 15th-and 16th-Century primitives...
...House," as Londoners call its huge six-story building, has corrugated metal shutters on the windows, slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest of London hears an air-raid siren's wail, a, special Klaxon stops the traders. They gather their books and scurry to their City offices, all less than half a mile away. Only red-and-blue liveried "waiters" (runners) are left on the echoing floor. So called because 18th-Century brokers did their trading in coffee houses, the waiters are A. R. P. wardens...