Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moralists may squirm at the fact that the lovers, while longing for a less dangerous life, seem to feel no guilt over their lawbreaking. They take real pleasure in the comforts gained by Granger's cut of a bank robbery and budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva...
...Grand Old Party. Said National Chairman Bill Boyle: "I earnestly pray that these failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
Over at the rival New Orleans States (circ. 96,228), anguished City Editor Walter Cowan called Society Editor Eva Stewart on the carpet. She had heard about the story, but had not gotten around to checking up on the prince. Cowan decided that it was not too late to start...
...when 350 Washington clubwomen gathered in the Mayflower Hotel for a luncheon meeting of the Community Chest. Over the fried chicken, a whisper spread among the guests. Finally Mrs. Henry Gichner rose and in a trembling voice confirmed the rumor: Miss Helen Hokinson had been "unavoidably detained . . . We have gotten the news that [her] plane has crashed ... It should be an example to all of us because . . . she was corning to help...
...Council's food committee has gotten itself snagged in a maze of minor details. It has set up house committees to uncover gripes. But everyone is used to hearing gripes about food, and the Administration feels that the current protests are nothing more than the usual. The Administration poses the questions, "Are we giving you the best possible food for your money and is this best good enough?" It answers yes to both and says that they have not yet been disproved...