Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...
Last week French newspapermen got the shock of their professional lives. Two of them were arrested for having been in cahoots with foreign propagandists. French journalists, sensitive about their profession's reputation, were spared the unpleasant task of reporting the arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored...
...advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just in time. Unnamed secret policemen conferred with Scotland Yard. A suave and charming investment broker ("known in political circles throughout Europe") ran luxurious offices in the Place de la Madeleine, had $13,250,000 in Nazi gold to spend, used two or three clever...
...again at the exclusive Lord's Cricket Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...
...Count and Countess went their separate ways more frequently. One of her more intimate friends was Dino Alfieri (Under Secretary for Press & Propaganda), a great lady's man who boasts that he personally selects all the stenographers in his office. When Count Ciano was appointed Foreign Minister, Alfieri got Ciano's old job as the Press & Propaganda Minister...