Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable side attraction at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was the Parliament of Religions, gotten up by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of Chicago. Opened with a prayer by the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the Parliament brought to the U. S. for the first time such exotic foreign religionists as the Swami Vivekananda. To the U. S. popular mind it gave the first smatterings of an esoteric subject, Comparative Religions, and the first inklings that Oriental faiths, after all, had their points...
Next day Uncle Sam's body was found. His two good parachutes were unopened. A garrulous dishwasher named Adrey, he had gotten the jumping job by palming himself off as one Joseph Wilson, an experienced cinema stunter. Inspectors doubted if he had ever seen a parachute before...
They go through a revolution looking for Snarge in Paranagua, a Latin-American State. Finally they arrive at the Greek island. Travers cannot persuade the engineers to give up their project, elects to have himself blown up with the temple. Meantime, Mrs. Travers and Mantell have gotten tired looking for Travers, have decided to concentrate their attention on each other. Bert the seaman, it turns out. was the only one who had an inkling of what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just...
...taken into the O'Connell family's confidence. In Albany their word is law. They were going to get their boy back in their own way. Up to late last week they had not gotten him. Ransom asked: $250,000. Banker. The courtesy of a sick old gentleman, neither brewer nor swindler, resulted in his kidnapping at Alton, 111. one night last week. At 9 p. m., August Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers...
...jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies. Eddie runs away, Ruby goes to the reformatory. Eddie visits her, persuades an elderly colored clergyman calling on his wayward daughter to marry them in the institution's chapel. Their wedding, with policemen who have gotten wind of Eddie's presence pounding on the door, is the high point of the story. The closing shot shows Ruby and her son, who is older than he ought to be, waiting to meet Eddie when he returns from Sing Sing. She has secured...