Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, the Messrs. Young and Morgan stepped into the first motor that drew up. Halfway down the drive they discovered it was the all-aluminum limousine of Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged in perplexity. The Messrs. Morgan & Young drove around to the portico again, got out. Mr. Morgan tapped Mr. Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured him they had had no intention of making off with his unique machine. The next day Secretary of State Stimson reaffirmed the government's refusal to have any connection, official or otherwise, with the International Bank of Settlements...
...inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element as some...
...Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities all got their wind tunnels from the Fund. After Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the North Pole (1926) the Fund sent his plane around the U. S. to focus attention on the development of aircraft and the need for municipal airports. The Fund sent Col. Lindbergh and his plane to at least...
...merely of the Vettori gang, he began seizing rival territory. Everything was daisy? until one night a screaming woman recognized Joe on his dance floor as one of the principals in the roadhouse job. They arrested Joe. Without much third-degree, he turned State's evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico felt it in the chest. He fell. "Mother of God," he cried, a bit theatrically...
...Burnetts went to Chicago. She got a job in an office. He worked briefly in the Marshall Field department store. Burnett seldom saw his wife those days. At night he loafed around with gangsters and pugilists. He was getting material for his sixth novel, Little Caesar, and his seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...