Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists held a meeting; he thought he heard a shot fired. Shaken but triumphant after his speech, he decided: "They driving me crazy-you know, I think this Jews are beginning to be afraid of me." But Fritz Kuhn was human: not only did he get angry, want some philosophy that made sense of his troubles-Fritz Kuhn also wanted sympathy, and not just from the Führer. And not just from quiet, patient Mrs. Kuhn...
...knew lay a mine field. Did he do anything to warn the ship? No, he replied, he had no authority to do that. But he telephoned to his fire commander and reported the situation. Did the fire commander do anything to warn the Sirdhana? No, he had first to get an order from the port war station...
...question thus became, not "Who got there first?" but "Did anybody get there at all?" Perhaps neither Cook nor Peary first saw the North Pole: perhaps it was first sighted, from the relatively cozy cabin of an airplane, by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett...
...took ten years for young Alfred to get the bit between his teeth. On his 21st birthday he inherited his mother's stable. When he was 25, he bought a sizable interest in the venerable Pimlico race track outside Baltimore (of which he later became president). The same year he became the youngest member of The Jockey Club, the handful of oligarchs who govern U. S. horse racing. Last week Alfred Vanderbilt succeeded ailing 66-year-old Joseph E. Widener as head of New York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William...
...guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took the whole spotlight, and Martinelli had to get up out of his deathbed to go and die on the other side of the stage...