Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, news of the last Deficiency Bill's report to the Senate floor is treated as the year's best moment to buy a pint or more of hard liquor. Open house is declared in the Capitol from end to end. Even dignified Speaker Bankhead lets word get about that there is cracked ice in his office. Small groups of members gather chummily in cloakroom corners to sing the ancient adjournment favorite: There's Blood on the Saddle...
Franklin Roosevelt took the defeat calmly (see p. 11). To get his foes' names on the record he ordered bald, kindly Leader Sam Rayburn to bring up the $800,000,000 Housing bill. But that very day the House was still crashing the ax on Roosevelt spending, slashing the Deficiency bill by three-fourths...
Grownups and children alike watched raptly, for never before had fireflies been seen in Seattle. West of the Rockies is out-of-bounds for U. S. fireflies-either because the mountains are too high for westing wanderers to get over, or because the Pacific Coast climate does not suit them...
Last month President's Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND-John Rhode -Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley solves the murder of an impeccable secretary of a London stock broker. Merit: a puzzle you can get your fingers into. Fault: a bit too much police theorizing...