Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival of two top-hatted gentlemen with whom The Chief and his wife motored two miles to the White House, where Calvin Coolidge stood in the Blue Room to greet them. Outside, two dozen motor cars were in line. Mr. Coolidge and The Chief went out and got into the first car, their ladies following in the next one. The chauffeur of the No. 1 car stepped on the self-starter. Wheels within groaned loudly but the motor would not start. The chauffeur gasped at himself and the motor. The Chief looked worried. Cameramen pressed in closer. Finally the engine...
...Professor-Captain Eddy all thanks for an eye-witness correction. TIME'S correspondent got the story from Major-General John Archer Lejeune, retiring Commandant of Marines...
After giving The Chief's silk hat (which The Chief detests) a final swirl, Boris, with others, got into an automobile and was driven off through crowded streets to the Capitol: a monstrous building with a domed centre, .the like of which you never see in the Balkans. A nipping wind blew up from the Potomac. The clouds were growing thicker. Boris was distressed...
...Senators will see, tripping politely up to their august rostrum, a slim person in her early 30's, with bright blond hair and a ready smile. Lola Williams got on in the world by cultivating a small potato patch of her own in a corner of the family farm; later by selling newspaper subscriptions. She reached Washington in 1918, a trained secretary looking for a job. The War Department took her in as a clerk until Senator Curtis found her. Now she is queen Secretary of the whole vast capitol...
...still Peter seethed with activity. He strained and strained trying to think of something to do in which you got a long way but didn't have to give up anything to get there. Finally he hit upon it,--he would become a social lion and an activities man. That was the combination. You spent your days with the best men, and in the evening you strutted your wares before the pride of the city's society...