Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once an actor, he has turned the theatre into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the street. Sang out Barrymore: "I hope they get to the fire in time." Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give those cues louder!" Once he said...
...remember his lines, he delivers an address on how embarrassing it is to lose your memory. Once, unable to stand up, he played all through the show sitting down. Another time, when he couldn't even issue from dressing room to stage, he said: "Get me a wheel chair, I'll play Lionel...
...Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...
...across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again, looked forward to the vast stretches of the Antarctic snow fields, where there would be plenty of room to maneuver...
...Hedda Hopper, with this story up her sleeve, heard that a rival columnist was about to break it. On a Saturday night at nine o'clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...