Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many, in and outside the field of English, meet up with Professor Matthiessen in that favorite course. Eng- lish 33. Those sophomores and juniors who gather twice weekly in Harvard 6 are soon aware that here definitely is not the usual experience of being lectured to. Envirioned by the usual paraphernalia of stuffiness, the large classroom and the elevated platform, Professor Matthiessen skirts the unnecessary, lightens the formidable and weighty, and breaks through to his audience with authentic and original views of the works at hand. Those who know what most lecturers could do to revolutionary ballads are grateful...
Selling stolen jewels to gullible American made ladies, dramatically watching the croupier gather in their last chips at Monte Carlo signifying that Mrs. Vail would have to dispense with another heirloom the four comrades in crime, Oliver. Mrs. Vail, Helen and Bascom, roamed across the continent cheating the rich and law. And were they not justified? The Great War had been cruel. Enough of that Solemly Oliver declares that he has bought an estate in Devonshire so that they can retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend...
...Dunster D-11, in Lowell R-22, everywhere the Sophomores gather. Sartorially superb, they speak glibly over the beer and pretzels. After all, why not? They are all candidates for honors, there is time, and when one knows the ropes. . Clever men break the bank at Monte Carlo. Harvard is a heritage for those--who know their way around...
...expense of newspapers, has been able to sit back and insist quietly that, so far as Radio was concerned, no war existed. Last week, however, Columbia Broadcasting System took action which, if not a show of force, at least was good showmanship. It formed Columbia News Service, Inc. to gather and broadcast news...
Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...