Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role suits the Squire of Hyde Park better than that of well-born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...
During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...
...Public Health Service disliked being lumped into Security, but its protest got nowhere. A plan to consolidate the police units of the Treasury (Secret Service, Revenue, Narcotics, Customs, Alcohol) was vetoed by the President and Secretary Morgenthau as looking too much like the start of an Ogpu or Gestapo...
Billy Rose was not the only little man at the show. Encountered while he was resting between rounds of dedicating buildings, Mayor Fiorelio La Guardla said, "The Hasty Pudding Show? I got a great kick out of secing myself in that. I've been trying to copy that actor's laugh ever since...
...himself that day he took Billy, his younger brother, to see the circus at the Boston Garden. The place affected him strangely: the smells of sawdust and animal-flesh, grease paint and rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college...