Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...else to manage it for them, someone to coach, for the young American does not care to play his own game; they want to furnish the bulk and they are run into the machine with someone else in charge. We all know who runs the games, who must be gotten rid of, if the games are lost. In all college papers we find editorials as to whether a certain individual should be gotten rid of or retained next year. It is easy to determine where the responsibility lies as to games, and the same applies to studies. It is terribly...
...Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
...unpleasant antics, striking his fist against the side of the plane, cursing in a sodden voice, and stamping on the ground. He had wanted, it appeared, to go to Paris. At the Brussels Aerodrome, four planes had been leaving simultaneously for London, Brussels, Cologne, and Paris. He had simply gotten the wrong one. Becoming calmer, he exhibited a ticket-"Brussels to Paris." Then, actually, he smiled. "I always used to take the wrong train. . . ." he said...
...Having gotten through eleven billion francs of new taxation by a Chamber vote of 324 to 110 (TIME, August 9) which the Senate confirmed last week, 250 to 13, M. Poincaré seized his opportunity to ride roughshod, informed the Deputies that they must now pass without amendments two more heroic measures of fiscal reform...
...absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care of himself when the Davis Cup matches and national championship come along." Some said he was clowning too much, his tournament intensity dissipated by other interests. Others said: "Never think it. Will Tilden is a man of 43; his follies...