Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your ardent subscribers, you will appreciate the thrill I got in reading in the Jan. 28 issue of the Dog Derby to be held shortly from The Pas to Flin Flon...
Lawrence was not popular with the officers of the Air Force which he joined to "escape" publicity. As may be imagined, he made it extremely difficult for them and in time he was unceremoniously thrown out and much to his displeasure transferred to the Tank Corps. How he got back into the Air Force has always been something of a mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced...
...tombstone for Reed but a tombstone by Reed was his 37,000 word report on his special committee's long-drawn investigation of the manner in which William S. Vare of Philadelphia got nominated for and elected to the Senate...
...boned Miss Muffet went to a Captain Petry for $3,675. Degomme, which won the Guards point-to-point for the Prince, went for $1,730 to Victor Emanuel, a U. S. sportsman who hunts frequently at Melton Mowbray. Another American, Mrs. Adamson, who hunts with the Quorn, got a beautiful hunter, Lady Doon, for $1,750. One horse, Just an Idea, the Prince could not bear to part with, and it was withdrawn. The sale brought $20,000 in all, a ridiculous sum as U. S. prices...
...Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew how to express themselves. They didn't mince matters. They got down to the heart of things...