Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certainly these 14 clean-cut words ought to come in handy when Mohammed Pasha tries to get the treaty ratified by a to-be-elected Egyptian Parliament. The only thing wrong?or even peculiar?about Article I is the interpretation placed upon it by Articles...
...crash which threw me partly out of my bunk. . . . I ran in my nightdress out into the saloon where I found the Prince and Princess also in night clothes. . . . Water began coming in on top of me through the portholes. The Prince aided me out on deck, returning to get the Princess. . . . They had told a sailor to swim with me, as the captain said that the ship was sinking so fast it was impossible to make any use of the lifeboats...
Delinquent Postmasters. Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown last week reminded 1,500 postmasters of communities with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 to help the Guggenheim Fund get their cities air-marked. The Postmaster-General threatened to shame delinquents publicly by printing their names. Two thousand postmasters had got town roofs well marked. Three thousand others are exhorting their citizens to do likewise...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
First Day. Lady Drummond Hay rose first the next morning and went shouting through the passageways: "I was first up of all. I'm hungry. You'd better get up or you'll miss breakfast." Passengers Leeds, Richards, paid no heed, slept until luncheon. Sir Hubert Wilkins, always taciturn, apologized for his large breakfast appetite, settled down to read a book...