Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting out to persecute any newspaper...
...ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international competitions, it has been noticed that Italy invariably loses. Any competition in which Italy loses is not one to be encouraged by the Fascist State. "Foreigners might get the impression," explained a Blackshirt chieftain gravely, "that there are no pretty girls in Italy!" No hint of this eminently practical point reached the Fascist masses. The official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular...
...Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world...
...hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident which did not invalidate this refueling method. Food and messages were also passed between the two planes, a rope substituting for the hose...
...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...