Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work at nigh without lights and at a fair risk. It's all chance, anyway. If the Germans land a shell in the dark on general theory that something ought to be on that road, at that spot, at that time, and you are there-you get it. That's all. But there are lots of roads and they are long Some cross-roads get special attention right along, and that brings me to tell you of an incident that happened the other night...
...have this Kind of thing all the time, though we did get an ambulance shot up badly the other day on the road--fortunately no one hurt...
...working seven cars night and day on advanced posts in 48-hour shifts, but the men and cars are pretty well recovered from the strenuous nights and days they got at Verdun and all are eager to see our fighting division move where we will get in the coming pursuit race to Berlin...
...undebatable reasons which show that the custom of secret practise is merely logical. Nearly everyone has attempted, usually unsuccessfully, to take down lecture notes with two or three friends discussing an interesting episode within hearing distance. In a similar way the players on the football field cannot get the maximum amount of help from the coaches, nor can they carry out the suggestions of the coaches properly when their attention is being diverted by the presence of observers on the side-lines. One of the greatest features of the Haughton system is the ultimate polish which every play must have...
Alice Dovey is particularly effective as the saccharine bride of a "big, strong man," and Anna Orr is full of that particular "pep" which is bound to get across. Oscar Shaw, as the dashing Dick Rivers is highly amusing and the hotel clerk of Denman Maley is a character which should go down in musical comedy history...