Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen Get Business...
...attention to those Coughlin claquers who are barking at you and threatening to destroy your circulation. I shall undertake personally to get you a dozen or more new subscribers on the strength of your courageous stand against demagogues of Coughlin's sanctimonious type. Others will do the same...
...days of competition our company has retained 77.9% of its business, and already has reconnected 118 customers who left us to go to the government power system. The most common explanation of this inconsistency of people voting for a power system and then not using it is: Politicians Get Votes -Businessmen Get Business...
TIME, Feb. 6, p. 9, col. 3: "Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported. . . ." Please, what do you mean by patrioteer? And when you tell me, will you say if you mean that such are all who wish to see Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me this, tell me, too, what has happened to our feeling for the fine word patriot, that in this country, and, so far as I know, only in this country, people are ashamed of it and so often give it the sneering inflexion ? I am touchy...
This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...