Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprised to learn that a one-room schoolmarm would pay boys 15? a week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum of a one-room school to gather wood and fetch water. To the teacher it was a relief to be rid for awhile of the annoyances of the slothful, ne'er-do-well pupils...
...Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away the spirits of darkness...
Mavericks are plentiful in Texas' Bexar County. They may-and do-fight among themselves. They may-and do-lambaste one another's politics. But when a Maverick gets in trouble, the Mavericks gather...
...Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...
...sixth. To gather in these riches, colonial Dutchmen are rewarded as handsomely as any similar group in the world. In 1935, of 85,000 Europeans earning a living in the East Indies, some 64,000 were taxed on incomes of more than $4,500 a year; 22,500 between $20,000 and $60,000 a year. But more significant was what this trade did to The Netherlands. Dutch investments in the East Indies were valued at $1,158,000,000. And today one-sixth of The Netherlands' population is dependent upon the colonial trade...