Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four men, who swore they had not gotten together previously, told the tale of "the poor damn side-hill gopher animal, whose legs on one side were longer than those on another, and hence he had to walk on the side of a hill...
...ousted, Adviser Taft hurried after his principal to caution: "Go easy on that, Governor. You know." "Yes, I know, I know," returned the Nominee. Moment later he was at the microphone. "I want to congratulate you," he cried to Cincinnatians, "on your Charter form of government. . . . You have gotten away from the city machines which are one of the very great dangers to city government in this country." Few minutes later Nominee Landon arrived at the Hotel Gibson where 1,200 Republican regulars were gathered to breakfast in his honor. Up to Charlie Taft sped his law partner, Representative John...
...antipathy for the New Deal, last month reported: "Uniformly there is the same story-he has pepped up the Republican organizations everywhere and done in a short time a job which could never have been done over the telephone, by mail or through lieutenants. . . . Mr. Hamilton has gotten a background on his present trip which will be invaluable to him when he gets back to headquarters...
...more aware of the inadequacy of NYA than Aubrey Williams. A lanky, kindly Alabaman, Director Williams believes the plight of U. S. youth will not brighten without undefined "changes in the economic structure." In Manhattan last autumn he declared that NYA had "gotten off to a very bad start." that he did not know what to do about it (TIME, Oct. 28). Giving New York's NYA a second start last week at the rate of $4,000,000 a year. Director Williams gloomily observed...
...fair shores. Men like Commander Van Zandt, whom few deny to be in the open pay of Moscow, make defamatory remarks about the young men who are some day to fight the battles of this country. Gold Star Mothers, their poverty played upon by Stalin's ill-gotten gold, are bribed to denounce the beauteous virgins whose pilgrimage to Flander's Fields is their only pious desire...