Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he knew he was dying of cancer of the liver in the spring of 1957, Ronald Knox asked friends to "ask our Lord to let me have the gift of perseverance." To one, he wrote with characteristic diffidence, "I gather this kind of cancer doesn't mean suffering in any acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with...
...silent. There was little need for him to talk: everyone in town knew that he and his affair with the 37-year-old Widow Theodora Pra had prompted all the other sermons in the first place. And so, one day, when his church bell rang for the congregation to gather, the people of Kyprianades wondered whether Father John might at last be ready to make public confession...
...Christmastide had long been a happy time in the city room. In trod messengers bearing gifts from sources to newsmen-ashtrays, tumblers, cheeses, fruit baskets, electric roasters, turkeys, hams, and good liquor. If he occupied the right spot-say, a business, entertainment or sports desk-the happy recipient might gather enough spirits to throw a roaring good New Year's Eve party. But this Christmas, in the year of exposure of big TV and radio payola and all its embarrassment, the flow of gifts in most newspaper offices slowed to a weak gurgle...