Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U. S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
...bowels of the Harvard Union, where the clattering of plates and the jangling of silver can be heard but faintly, the addicts of the ivory ball gather round the Green Table, follow the clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once...
...purpose of the Committee was to gather data about the conduct of tutorial instruction, and the administration of the tutorial system at Harvard. On the basis of the data (obtained from tutors) conclusions have been drawn and proposals made; but we do not maintain that these constitute an exhaustive critique of the tutorial system...
...developing embryo, far more complex than a single cell, has a commanding genie and subordinate genii for each organ, each cell. So has an adult organism. Even colonies of individuals may have a commanding genie, as when the marine animals called Portuguese Men-of-War gather in a cluster which behaves like a single animal, with groups of individuals told off to perform various organic functions. Finally, the whole universe, which is in constant evolution, must have a supreme genie-the Cosmos or World Soul...
...small Midwest town of the buggy days has long awaited a novelist who could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...