Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With their dogs cooped in trailers behind sturdy automobiles, Texas wolf hunters gather at 2 or 3 a. m., motor far out into the brush. Best time to cast the hounds is just before daybreak, when the land is wet and the dogs, running with heads up. can catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield...
...reckoned with in the Harvard scene both in the administration and with the students for forty-eight years, though, naturally, as his reputation grew with his achievements, he gained correspondingly in power. Many of the anecdotes which cling to his name and are bandied about wherever Harvard men gather are the result of his personal magnetism and the imagination which he puts into his approach, into everything he does...
...Scottish clansmen accustomed to gather each year and greet the Monarch with a loyal demonstration after his arrival at Balmoral (TIME, Sept. 28) were informed last week that King Edward had discontinued this practice and also would not drive out behind the Royal greys. The 40 stable grooms and coachmen who accompanied the Monarch in previous years to Balmoral were left in London last week and the custom of inviting a Cabinet minister to reside in attendance upon the King in Scotland was also discontinued. Constitutionally the King can act only upon the advice and with the countersignature...
...Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian Guy Massey, whose name had been attached to the published music since the song's appearance...
Agitation over the new House parietal regulation regarding entertainment of women guests began to gather in a head yesterday as petitions went up in al seven upperclass dormitories requesting a return to the former ordinance...