Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a protégé of Virginia's Carter Glass, who picked him as his House lieutenant in the fight for the Federal Reserve Act. During the campaign young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association...
Inspired by what happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey...
...Crimson failed in their attempts to score during the first two periods, but they were in Indian territory most of the time. In the third quarter, Howie Mendel got off a 40-yard kick with his left foot that just wormed into the goal, starting the Harvard scoring. Dick Whitkin turned in a fine brand of play all afternoon...
...Howe are ya Phelan today, pretty Gross?" "No nifty. I got a Highmark on my exam and look at the weather. Not a MacLeod in the sky . . . . though Sommers gone it's a regular May Daye, and I Lovett...
While strolling through the Parks last night Huey fell and got a Lempke like a big Mellen on his head and Plenty of Mudge in his eye." "Glueck, Glueck," he said, just like...