Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teacher, to get sympathy): "You don't know my father. He'll beat me with an iron chain, yes, sir! an iron chain, 'n after all I'm only a little...
...interest in the split-up was keen in Missouri, whose Congressman Leonidas Dyer recently purchased Hiram Walker stock without knowing the nature of the product and sold, precipitately, at a loss, when the horrid truth became evident to him. Congressman Dyer talked of suing the Manhattan Curb to get back his lost money. Had he not been so hasty in disposing of his "tainted" certificates, he might have had a profit on his transaction...
...famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Story, Elias Howe, whenever their admirers get around to having busts executed...
What happened after Dr. Shields ducked under the desk was a shower of eggs, rocks, fruit, skins, fish. Then came the students, 400 strong, irate, crying, "Lets get Shields! Hurray for Wayman...
...penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up where...