Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When you go to the theatre you pay more than 75? to get in to see one show. At the Fair you see hundreds. . . . How many times have you seen a big-league baseball game, a doubleheader, even for an admission price of only...
Therefore, it must follow that since the hole-in-one was the result of planned deliberation on your part, your failure to get a hole-in-one at any time is necessarily the result of an accident. The ball does not conform with your plans since you struck it in a manner other than that which you intended...
...When Shapiro propelled a pushcart on the Lower East Side, "Gurrah" (get out) was what Shapiro snarled at East Side pushcarters to whom he first sold "protection." Those who did not "Gurrah" got their carts pushed over...
...outrageous piece of banditry. . . . On what meat does this our Caesar feed? . . . This stock company Hitler should, must be hobbled. . . ." Unhobbled Mr. Browne did not vote, otherwise participated as one union politician among others. The legitimate theatre, the cinema industry, the financial interests involved lobbied fiercely to get the council to settle matters without a jurisdictional strike of Rats on Brownies or vice versa...
...Ettie Garner last week wrote that her husband Cactus Jack "left off the practice [of playing poker] a good many years ago." With the poker & whiskey vote lined up for him by John L. Lewis' attack last fortnight Mr. Garner announced in Texas: "I'm going to get eviler every day." He went bass-fishing at once with his crony, Ross Brumfield, Uvalde garage...