Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conventions. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman gave out a portentous announcement: "The conventions shall be Dry!" That is, undercover agents, already at work, will try to intimidate such liquor operators as have not already gotten their shipments through to Houston and Kansas City from Mexico, Cuba, Canada. Naturally enough, the Houston convention will receive the most attention, not solely because it is Democratic but because it is so near a border and because Texas has always out-thirsted Kansas. It is not likely, however, that the persons, baggage or hotel rooms...
...immoral and the obscene in Boston, the Watch and Ward Society. Since time immemorial the Boston Common has been the high domain and secure retreat of the prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death by starvation or a worse-than-death existence with enforced birth control. The method is simple. Once lured within specially...
...Nicaragua. "A stupid and inept Administration has gotten us into a difficult situation and now we are having to fight our way out of it. ... There is war in Nicaragua. It is not the war of the American people. ... If the President can send our Marines to wage war in Nicaragua the President can send an army and the navy to Great Britain and bombard London tomorrow. . . . etc., etc., etc." The House heard much oratory of this kind from excitable members. But nothing happened. Leaders of both parties were content to let the Administration work out its own salvation...
...This relates chiefly to various form-letters to both Advisers and Freshmen, and blanks for admission records. July, August, and September are very busy months in the office of the Board of Freshman Advisers, as it is necessary to have as much work done in advance as can be gotten...
Every year since 1922 the Stadium has been filled, and every year the spectators have gotten their money's worth. In 1923, 1924, and 1925 it was at Harvard's expense. In 1923 a Dartmouth steam-roller crashed through Harvard's best to the tune of 16 to 0. In 1924 Dooley twice saved the day for Dartmouth when Harvards backs had broken through with several interferers ahead of them. In that game, Dartmouth capitalized a Harvard fumble for a touchdown, and Harvard fumble for a touchdown, and Harvard failed to capitalize opportunity after opportunity to lose...