Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered around him a brilliant, erratic crew of staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million...
Poulenc's sophisticated pianism is evident in Mouvements Perpétuels, Nocturne in D Major and Suite Française (1 side LP). No dust will gather here; both music and performance sparkle brightly...
...nearly as I can gather from a sampling of forecasts, the long-suffering U.S.A.-ers are likely to be forced with a '52 presidential choice between Harry S. Truman and Robert Taft. It will be like playing "nullo" with the resources of the nation-human, spiritual and material. Low man wins-because what can we choose between these two egocentric party-liners other than the lesser evil...
Hardened Saliva. Georgie found plenty of compensations, notably when he could go on jungle safari with the natives to gather birds' nests. In the land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does...
Several folk dance groups will gather for demonstration purposes, among them the Swedish Folk Dance Club of Boston under the direction of Axel Spongberg. An Armenian dance group will also give an exhibition of native terpsichore, followed by the unusual dances of old Poland by the Krakowianki Dance Group of Boston...