Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offset that, however, my social popularity has increased as much as if I had learned to play the piano, gotten rid of halitosis, used Lifebuoy, or spoken to the waiter in French...
...like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements of the diggers' bodies. With the use of a metronome whose tempo was kept constantly on the increase, I set my actors to work with their picks and shovels. I believe I have gotten what I wanted...
...minutes in altitude below the summit of the mountain. This year, laying determined plans to achieve his end, Washburn took no chances and started on the 28th of May. But again bad luck appeared when, on getting to the Pacific coast, Washburn found that the expedition supplies had gotten lost in the shipping strike and that all the Alaskan boats were hopelessly tied up. Three weeks were spent in straightening out this tangle and it wasn't until June 23 that the base camp was established at Crillon Lake, 10 miles as the crow flies and 15 miles...
...lose a great part of that custom they might have obtained on merit, were all other considerations equal. Is it then right that they should be thus penalized for adhering to the letter of the law, while their less fastidious rivals reap their ill-gotten gains? Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are not speedily filled in Harvard Square...
...night of the banquet, Cellini's affairs have gotten out of hand. Alessandro, who wants Angela at the banquet, introduces her as Cellini's mistress. Furiously jealous, the Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith...