Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time! I don't think we were expected before 8:30 or 9 o'clock!" For his nose he was given $3,000; for her face Mrs. Swope got half as much...
Governor Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, motoring by night from Trenton to Perth Amboy was startled as he passed through Princeton to have a rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...
...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...draw to gamble on a doubtful win. Last week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete the 15½ points that would decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook and pawn ending. He had won 11 games, lost 5, drawn 9. Immediately Señor José Capablanca* mailed Dr. Alekhine a challenge for a match to be played in Manhattan or in Bradley Beach...
...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...