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Word: got (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They got no further than the first stanza. Outraged bourgeois first-nighters bellowed "Outrage!" "Sacrilege!" Socialist defenders of the play shouted "Splendid!" "Colossal!" Terrified for his theatre, the manager rang down the curtain, sent for the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy End | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...most prolific producer of automotive equipment in the world, I think your company should bear a large part of the abandoned car problem." Thus, last month, wrote George U. Harvey, aggressive president of Queens Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Week | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Youths. Boys between 16-21 contested for Best-Boy Piper in Canada, played the same tunes as their elders. The winner got a gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Banff Festival | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...State Prison at Windsor, Ontario, Clarence Adams played dead by self-hypnotism, a friend "embalmed" him, accomplices outside got the coffin, released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Raleigh Prison, one John Wilson got an impression of his room's keyhole with chewing-gum, made a key to match out of a buttonhook, walked out at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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