Word: gots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON reporter last night, "why Harvard University doesn't take more of a hand in the matter, why it doesn't try to prevent that gang of low politicians from making this city the laughing stock of America: but," he added, after a contemplative pause, "I guess Harvard's got troubles enough of its own with its football team...
...from last winter or the distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than representatives of all the big French exhibitors rushed to make new U. S. bookings, showed by enthusiastic comments that they are gladdest of all that Cineman Sapene got a pie-in-the-face...
...captured, condemned to death. Ziolo Rodrignez Rabano, one of his accomplices, escaped to Florida. Because the then Minister of Executions had been released from jail "for faithful services rendered," Cuba at that time lacked an executioner. Francisco de Pineda eloquently argued his own qualifications for the position. He got the job, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...
Prime absorber of funds were the various security and financial corporations somewhat loosely classed as investment trusts. These companies accounted for no less than $1,494,093,000-or somewhat more than one third of the entire total. Next came public utilities, which got along on $777,191,000. Low on the list were Coal and Construction, high were Aviation and Oil. Ten leaders in new financing were...
This is significant of the so-called Mexican Renaissance, which has occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they went home and looked around. They saw that no use was being made of native material. The official artists were but feeble, academic imitators of the Spanish school of Zuloaga. Plainly it was impossible to superimpose Spain on Mexico...