Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief to the unemployed at home, the very much employed President would get no-work relief on the mother of oceans...
...have done as much studying of the map of this State as anybody in this State. I know the possibilities and I want to assure you that your Government in Washington is not forgetting your existence or your problems. We are trying in every way we possibly can to get more people into this State, to develop its resources for future generations who are going to live in the State...
Miss Ogden concludes: "Today the chances are that better education [than Society Girls get in finishing schools] is available to their poor relations...
...Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what was to become of the rackets...
...Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news, no use for folding boats, surgical instruments, Union Jack...