Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time it reached New York, the idea had begun to wear out, and the portraiture had dulled. Now that Hollywood has gotten hold of it, the script has failed to delineate character at all, and the entire picture has come to resemble a meeting of the Hollywood chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. There are times when you can't see the characters for the waving of the flag...
...pockets bursting with mill-gotten gains, a new class of theatre-goers may force a perceptible change upon American drams, Katherine Cornell, one of America's foremost actresses, said last Saturday in her dressing room at the close of the first week's run of "Lovers and Friends...
...many U.S. housewives have gotten such a windfall in the morning mail as came last fortnight to 25-year-old Dorothea Cornwell of Louisville. She had just won the biennial $10,000 prize awarded jointly, by Manhattan Publishers Dodd, Mead & Co. and Redbook* for the best unpublished novel submitted. Author Cornwell's prizewinner, They Dare Not Go AHunting, which was selected from several hundred entries, will run serially this summer in Redbook, appear in book form some time later...
After a long struggle, I have gotten most of our New England journals to realize that the classic remark, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it" (TIME, March 20) was not Mark Twain's. . . . Charles Dudley Warner, Associate Editor of the Hartford Courant, was the man. Mark Twain did say (or write), "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes...
Posnickety. In Springfield, Mass., Mailman Fred Anthony got a letter from overseas Sergeant Simon Posnick: "I have learned from [my wife] that it has gotten to such a point that [she] says she could kiss you every time you bring a letter from me. You see what a dilemma...