Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly before the stroke of twelve one night last week 300 people were enjoying a movie in Chillán's National Theatre. Suddenly, above the screen voices, came an ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance...
Bodies were dug from the ruins, laid in piles for burial. But the broiling sun soon made the stench so unbearable that thousands of corpses had to be thrown into the quake fissures to get rid of them. Their water mains and pumping stations smashed, many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
Intoxicated by the rabble-rousing, a young Fascist dashed from the crowd and slugged a passing Jew, Jacobo Glantz, a naturalized Mexican citizen who is literary editor of the Yiddish newspaper, The Pathway. Glantz took refuge in the nearby hat shop of his wife but before the police could get to him, the Jew-hating crowd had wrecked the storefront...
...faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported willing to be head puppet for the Japanese wire-pullers on two somewhat novel conditions: 1) he must be permitted to swear allegiance to Chiang Kaishek; 2) the Japanese must get out of China...
...fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under the influence of cocktails and a moon, she used to get engaged, but always broke it off next morning before taking her walk and sitting down to work...