Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...
...State, match dollars thereafter, thus assuring a total grant of $25 per month for needy oldsters in States willing to give $10, a maximum of $40 in States giving $17.50. This plan's author was Senator Connally of Texas. Colorado's Johnson got it further provided that no Federal money at all shall go to States that fail to give at least $10. For child and maternal health service the Senate upped the House's $3,800,000 to $5,820,000, for crippled children from $2,850,000 to $3,870,000 (Wisconsin...
Editors of the Pioneer, the Golden Era, the Overland Monthly, the Californian were such resourceful amateurs as Sam Brannon, wildcat Mormon leader who got rich collecting tithes from gold prospectors; Ferdinand C. Ewer, tall, goateed, atheist Harvardman who later became an Episcopal rector; Charles Henry Webb, lisping, redheaded ex-sailor and miner, wit and lady-killer, who fled to California to escape the Civil War. (In the second year of the war, 100,000 army deserters and pacifists rolled into California. Among them was a slouchy ex-river pilot named Samuel Clemens...
...became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped...
General Leone got the bright idea of dressing a raiding party in suits of armor-"They admit of the most daring exploits in broad daylight," beamed the general, confiding that the Austrians had spent enormous sums trying to steal the patent on them. Eighteen volunteers, looking like medieval knights, heaved themselves over the parapet, clanked toward the enemy. The general turned to the colonel and said gravely, "The Romans owed their victories to their cuirasses." Two Austrian machine guns punctuated his remark. As he peered over the parapet, the last of the 18 armored Italians toppled over like tin cans...