Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
...Chambers written a play while he was at Columbia ... a play which was an offensive treatment of Jesus Christ? "Yes -highly offensive." Had he left college then? "Yes-after some very just criticism." Had Chambers gotten back by lying to a dean? Said the witness: "That was a long time...
Proef of the pudding won't really come until next tall. At that time a world premiere of "A touch," with all the trappings, is scheduled for the University Theater. Up to now, the "critics" haven't gotten at the film and faith in the film shown by commercial distributors may belie its merits. Come what way, the Harvard audience will be first to find...
...year-old Ralph Bunche did not mention his most compelling reason. As an Assistant Secretary of State he would be one of the top Government officials in Washington. But as a Negro, he would be barred from most restaurants, hotels and clubs in Washington. Bunche had gotten his fill of Washington before (as a specialist in OSS and in a State Department desk job). While other officials of his rank lived in the more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school...
...slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...