Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington society, where sex appeal and politics are potent and appreciated, formidable Evie Robert is considered a rising power. Her husband was a convivial industrial architect, New Deal fixer and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury before he got his present party post. Evie, who rarely mentions her first husband,* was 26 in 1935 when she took the 48-year-old Chip as her second. They live in a gilded suite in the Mayflower, stage some of Washington's liveliest parties. Evie's stock of racy anecdotes about big-shot politicos is apparently inexhaustible. Naturally she does not write...
...Ghost Kenny, an Iowa-trained lawyer by profession, had visions of much better things. Last week, as 3,000 copies of Dougal Herr on Marriage, etc. were going through the bindery, Author Herr got a temporary restraining order to prevent the sale of his own book...
...alleged that: 1) Ghost Kenny got together with William A. Kaufmann, Author Herr's law partner and holder of 20% of the stock of Legal Publications, Inc.; 2) controlling a combined 60% of the stock, Kenny and Kaufmann thereupon voted themselves $400 a week salaries out of proceeds from selling the book; 3) Kenny, who had been hired principally to do laborious legal research, rewrote the preface to give himself credit for his work, an unheard of action for a ghost...
...piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians got up and left; of those who remained some were puzzled, some worried, some tolerantly amused; a few politely applauded...
...Then a few months later a second questionnaire showed that only 50% wanted it on their cars. GM abandoned freewheeling. It still took Weaver some time to persuade the company that a regular customer research department was warranted. Allowed to try it for GM's Canadian affiliate, he got results so successful that in 1933 customer research was extended to the entire company...