Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President reminded the Women, all of us are descended from immigrants and some from revolutionists. . . . Some of us have remembered what that Revolution was about, and have thought we might have to get out our muskets again...
...enough. Ever since I read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile the haughty dames with the haggard, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving horde that fought well but didn't put on half so good a show as we get today from its descendants. Pardon me while I go out and wave a red flag so our friends can call an indignation meeting...
...much has been said about the unfairness of lab courses cutting chemistry students out of extra-curricular activities, that the real complaint of the chemists has been quite overlooked. Chemists, and biologists, too, realize the necessity of lab courses, without which they could not possibly get any real understanding of their subjects, and they have no objection to the lab work itself. What the chemists want is to be able to arrange their lab time so that more afternoons would be free...
...have a double significance; they describe what has happened to most of the foreign news before it reaches the hands of Mr. Young in his capacity of Cable Editor of the New York Times, and also represent how the author has cut apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze of events abroad, and expounds in the process some surprising conclusions which the author has drawn from...
...Union, is a merry miscellany of comic sketches, music, and dance, properly shot through with social significance, but with no especially grim grinding of axes. Insofar as the show is a vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...