Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golier made loud noises about how he, thrice Mayor of Bradford. Pa., had "helped elect Herbert Hoover" and now look what he got...
Before he was 20, Asa Yoelson ran away from Washington, D. C, where he had learned to sing in the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson. He got a job barking for a side-show with a country circus, later went into vaudeville and started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor...
...called "Jugoslavs" (southern Slavs) for short. The potent, ruthless Serbs are the dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen Marie and King Alexander examined the relative merits of such typically Slovenic names...
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...
...William ("Billy") Sunday, silent, these many months, screamed at a Pitman, N. J. camp meeting: "The Church has got its back to the wall! They're building nine theatres to one Church. All people think of is entertainment-movies and the like. They offered me $1,000,000 to go into the movies, but I turned it down. I can do more good speaking to the people face to face...