Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nicer to have around. His G.I. grandson is Robert Walker, all feet, thumbs and fumbling charm. Miss Jones (in real life the former Mrs. Walker) falls in love with him and gives him self-confidence. Another visitor is the Hilton's dearest friend, Naval Lieutenant Joseph Gotten. Rejected by Miss Colbert, he has become a perennial bachelor...
...time to do in films. Miss Colbert greys perceptibly and learns to be a welder. An immigrant welder (Alia Nazimova) tells her that she embodies her own dearest dreams of America, Startling cinemaudacity: months after her husband is reported missing, Welder Colbert toys with the idea of accepting Mr. Gotten at last. Earlier Gotten seriously considers trying to seduce...
...baptized believers." He did not like Navy orders "not to tell the men what the Bible teaches concerning salvation," but to tell the men "character stories and that they must be willing to die for their country." He was stunned by rumors about "several chaplains who had gotten drunk," and he was shocked that some chaplains swear...
...only gone a mile or two when the captain called us and told us we were to take Bizerte and hold it until the infantry moved in. My heart jumped right out I think. ... I had no sooner gotten started down the street when machine-gun fire started flying around and then we could see across the channel up on a hill behind it, gun flashes. So I stopped right in the middle of the street and started shelling the gun positions. By this time they were giving it to us hot and heavy, but we were giving plenty back...
Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Gotten; TIME...