Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mutiny. When the mutineers try to make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship and sweetheart...
...editors of the Critic, having sold some subscriptions, are bravely facing the consequences. They have six (or less) issues on their minds which must be gotten off; a large job for three boys, busy enough with the worries of getting a degree. So they have sent out a call for help, asking for articles, jokes, photos, questionnaires, material for questionnaires, questions for other helpers to help...
...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...
...manager in New York to give her a break, you're washed up he says simply. Why don't you try working in a theatrical office, you know plenty of the crowd... Kitty remembers her daughter in Boston; she is ambitious again. That she shouldn't have gotten to the top is no reason that Shirley shouldn't. Dancing lessons, a try-out, success, the Palace, and then a rehearsal in Boston for a musical comedy. While mother is having an appendectomy, Shirley romps through the woods with Warren Foster, a young artist, who is living in her grandmother...
...Providence or some such place, and then their allotted days would begin all over again. But this year the law has been amended to read that no car can remain in the state more than '30 days in a year." At the end of that time permits must be gotten at the Registry of Motor Vehicles. So now we have a means of getting at out-of-state cars by checking...