Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the War, when talk turned to things to look forward to after the gold buttons were handed out, THE GAME was often mentioned. In it lay the hint of finer things to come -- bigger parties, new dates, and maybe, better seats than he had gotten at New Haven. Vag dried his face and tried to think of all the strangers he had promised to meet at the first postwar Game. He winced when he remembered how his mask of indifference had dropped one day and how he had offered to bet anyone even money -- without asking any points -- that...
That would scarcely be a hardship for big, hell-raising Bill Moyes. He went radio-crazy during college days at Yale, has never gotten over it. His column, hardly one of the best, is easily the brashest. Because of "family readership," his prose is closely screened for cuss words, but some original and occasionally shrewd observations on U.S. radio get through. Some screenings...
Similar raises have been gotten by directors and producers, who probably fired and forgot the wartime underling who cracked: "A good showman today is a man who opens his theater doors and has sense enough to get the hell out of the way before he gets trampled to death by the incoming audience...
...Henri welcomed the French Revolution, and loved the period that followed-when the ladies promenaded "in flowing 'Roman' garments that exposed their arms and shoulders and nearly all of their bosoms," and the dandies courted them "gotten up like peacocks, in embroidered coats, with ruffles . . . immense green cravats, and rare knotted walking sticks...
Then the Purple and Gold began to wear the Crimson down, and in 14 minutes of the first period had gotten its first score. The end of the third period and the start of the fourth saw three goals slammed past the Crimson defenders in quick succession. Ted Stolzfuss was high scorer for the Jeffmen with three points...