Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rarely outside of Paris is an art critic so stimulating to his readers as to get himself burned in effigy. Last week Eleanor Jewett, art critic for the Chicago Tribune, very nearly achieved that distinction as the climax of a long career...
...midge-sized Negro bootblack named Charles McFarland tried to get $3,000 damages from ex-Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey. His story: because he inadvertently tickled Dempsey's ribs while adjusting his coat, Dempsey fetched him a belly blow, damaged his already ulcerated innards. Dempsey's successful defense: "If I had socked this little guy he wouldn't be here to tell his story. And if I have to pay him $3,000 I feel that I should be entitled to one punch...
...over-all fee of $300 to $1,200 a year, according to their means (a few pay nothing), are expected to share in the work, whatever they pay. For its new buildings, Black Mountain bought a site at Lake Eden, few miles from its present quarters. It hopes to get gifts to start its project and have at least one building to move into by the fall...
...Students were most likely to be dishonest in their school work, which led Miss Omwake to observe that the traditional school curriculum, stressing competition for marks, "may promote dishonesty." Of her students, 33% said they would be tempted to cheat in an examination if they could get away with it; 50% would be tempted if most of their classmates cheated; 79% had actually cheated in an examination at least once...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior John A. West Jr., like many another near-graduate, began to think about getting a job. Having failed to get one by ordinary methods, John West tried a novel scheme. He wrote a note, made 81 copies, slipped each copy into a bottle, mailed the bottles to 81 advertising agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your...