He spent a year interviewing gang members, social workers, the police, the clergy and community members in Trenton, gathering information and anecdotes.
MS. MacINTOSH does an admirable job of gathering colorful Busch family anecdotes.
And since he traveled through much of the known world, he had many things to say about manners and customs, gathering oral histories and anecdotes about long-lost tribes, assessing their accuracy and accounting for varied fates.
I get the importance of gathering individual stories or anecdotes and the power they have when told in a compelling and emotional way.
A Short Description of a good night would be a house gathering accompanied with drinks, anecdotes, jokes, spilling beans on the local scene, talking shit about each other to each other, and allowing ourselves to be caught in the midst of lies to keep things honest.
The impeccably neat lines of shorthand are familiar, the voracious gathering up of fact, incident, anecdote and sightings of pretty women even more so.
A generous host, and a great raconteur, Cohen held centre-stage at any gathering, with a stream of astounding anecdotes.
Fifty years ago, it was enough to write colorful anecdotes about beefy jocks, gathering stories by drinking with the boys and preserving access by withholding any unflattering anecdote, describing their achievements in hyperbole and doggerel.
Tretick was smitten with the Hollywood-burnished Irish-American magic on the 1960 campaign trail, and he became a lifelong Kennedy acolyte, gathering a trunkload of captivating pictures and anecdotes over the next decade or so.
