Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that isn't the whole truth-the whole expose of the whole business...
Long: That is the toughest thing I ever ran into. No one wants to agree to anything. Some members of the Senate have gotten into a bad humor...
...interpreting these appeals in the worst light possible. They are confessions that some banks have made bad or illiquetiable loans to their own officers. The public's feeling is that if such bad or illiquetiable loans have been made to an ordinary citizen, he would have 'gotten the works' long ago, been sold out or required to obtain additional endorsement or collateralization which would have made his loan legitimately renewable...
Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
...Indianapolis, trying to arrest three blind men, Rex Overman, Charles Bennett and Ray Johnson, who had gotten drunk in a hotel room with two women, police had their faces clawed, broke one blind man's head open...