Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever love story is in the piece is let loose early and gotten over with hurriedly, as if the author suspected that something embarrassing might break out. The story concerns itself mainly with a young newspaperman sentenced by his father to learn journalism in Glendale, Vt, where they have a daily paper—:although the hamlet hardly seems large enough to support a weekly. Loathing the work, he secretly swaps jobs with the dreamy owner of the general store. In the course of conducting each other's business they run against the grafting selectmen...
Tyrus R. Cobb, professional baseball player: "I received the following mention in one of the letters of the late Archie Butt, which, descriptive of the Roosevelt Administration, are appearing serially in The New York Herald: 'I have gotten the President very much interested in Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player from Georgia. I told him I had given Ty a dinner .... and he wanted to know all about him. . . . Ty is only 22 years old and neither drinks nor smokes, neither did any of the ball players who were there. That interested the President greatly...
...interview contained a statement concerning Mussolini which is worthy of comment. He said "If his political methods had been as sound as his economic policies, he would rank as the greatest statesman of modern times." With many others Prof. Carver shares the idea that Mussolini's power was ill-gotten"; as a matter of fact, the greater part of the American press has thought substantially along the same line. Of course it would be ridiculous for me to defend seizure of authority by force of arms as a general policy, but I believe that censure of such action under unusual...
Pacifism is described as "Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak to hide cowardice but it has grown out of clear-cut, highminded thinking and has been fostered by a greater courage and a more noble...
...unfortunate that such can find only the word pacifism to describe their movement. Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of war, the first light it saw was very dark indeed, and the principle acts, or inactions, committed in its name have damned it eternally for the many heroes and heroines who have sustained through war the bitter loss of their more heroic...