Word: betook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursday, May 19, 1763 James Boswell noted in his "London Journal" that strolling through the Strand he had met several ladies of the town and, "in a rich flow of animal spirits," had betook them to a private room in an ale-house. "I toyed with them and drank about and sung 'Youth's the Season' from The Beggar's Opera and thought myself Captain Macheath; and then I solaced my existence with them, one after the other, according to their seniority." Two hundred years later the Drama Festival's production of the same play, while not specifically aphrodisiac, still...
...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street on a Sunday afternoon, had himself photographed on the deserted street looking at the imposing facade of Lehman Brothers, the family investment house in which his opponent, Senator Herbert Lehman, was once a partner. "This is very interesting to me, for a poor...
Harry Bridges knotted-a brown-and-yellow necktie around his matchstick neck one day and betook himself to San Francisco's federal court. "It's my homestretch tie," Harry explained. "It has never failed me in the homestretch...
...scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted the shortage in a routine year-end checkup, Accountant Pimenta disappeared. Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother...