Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in the greatest good for the greatest number." One of his more conservative Republican colleagues cracked: "We actually have a hard time keeping him out of the lap of guys like Claude Pepper." And John Bricker was heard to remark last summer: "I hear the Socialists have gotten to Taft." These hyperboles indicate, at least, that if Taft wears the party harness, he goes his own gait...
Although you might be tempted to treat the neatly-printed from as merely light reading over a trayful of baked macaroni and cheese, this little questionnaire has been gotten up with an extremely sensible care. The first question, for example, runs: "Are you interested in attending student-produced plays at Harvard? Yes? No?" There's the whole problem. You can circle "No" and concentrate on the macaroni. If you consider yourself a wit, there's plenty of shiny white space and a number of detailed questions that can be answered hilariously with a fine-pointed pencil...
...night. The Americans worked without pay; in fact, it cost them $600 apiece to make the trip. In Europe they teamed up with Eng lish hostelers, formed work groups, and fanned out into Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was the first time U.S. and European hostelers had gotten together since...
...Born Yesterday" begins and ends in the comfortable Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...same morning, Taft and the Senate steering committee went into another conference. Friday noon, all hands got together at lunch. Friday afternoon, Senators huddled again. Taft made another statement to the press; so did Maine's Senator Wallace White. Washington newsmen were worn out. But they had gotten the Republican program in a nutshell...