Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner was long and formal?too formal for Ambassador Dawes, master of diplomatic informality. Even before dessert was passed, Ambassador Dawes got up from his place and wandered off to talk to old friends at another table...
Chairman Requa got the conference off to an awkward start when he said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
...Cochran of the St. Louis Republic. Robert Linthicum of the New York World is far better remembered for his poem on the death of Woodrow Wilson than for his Democratic outpourings in 1924. Last year Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, publicist-friend of Candidate Smith, headed the publicity committee, wrote little, got little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington last year were goateed Charles S. ("Buck") Hayden of the Nashville Banner, whiteheaded Robert Moores Gatee of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their blunders ? for example, calling Candidate Hoover a "fat candidate from Piccadilly"?have not yet been forgotten...
...Southern girl who had two sweethearts, one of whom turned out to be a coward. He was drunk when the bugle blew, and when she told him to get out and join the ranks he belched in her pretty face. So she put on his tin hat and got in his place and won a battle for the regiment by shooting a German machine gunner. Actress Eleanor Boardman and Director Henry King do the best they can with their material. Best shot: tanks going into action...
Pugilism's fatted calf gets fatter every day. Since Heavyweight Champion Tunney retired (August 1928), and Arch-promoter Rickard died (January 1929), and Onetime-champion Dempsey went vaguely into promoting and got himself talked about for night-life and a chorus-girl (TIME, June 10), the chance has grown more and more solidly golden for some young man to smash his way forward and, while satisfying the popular demand for a Greatest Fighter of Them All, have a good time and amass a fortune...