Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This can be attributed chiefly to lack of proper coaching and playing conditions." We agree with Helen Jacobs. Vines...
...into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from the beginning, who had gotten his political ideals from his Presidential father, his aggressive pertinacity from the football fields of New Haven and the battlefields of France-Charles Phelps Taft...
...commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would the Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt has told friends: "I've gotten to like that fellow Myron Taylor [U. S. Steel] since I've seen so much of him." Only last week Donald B. Gillies (Corrigan-McKinney Steel) told the American Mining Congress that his industry "whole-heartedly approves the President's Recovery program." Steelman Weir was himself...
...hockey players, sat miserably in his room at home, waiting to hear whether Bailey would live or die. Both he and Horner were suspended by the National Hockey League pending investigation of the case. League officials dug into the whole question of whether or not hockey violence had gotten out of bounds. A seasoned spectator in a strange U. S. city does not have to be told whether he is watching a professional or collegiate hockey game. At a glance he can tell by any of three points: 1) Professionals, most of them Canadians, are ever so much faster...
...Safe" of years ago, to the current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue...