Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...
...magnetic power his friends never knew he had, Jock Peterson lured a beautiful creature all the way from California, and to Cambridge at that. Jean Allen and said Ensign were wed in the Chapel next door to the place he spends his weeks. He realized what he had gotten into on Monday afternoon when, on coming out of the basement of the President's house, he was cautioned to "Stop waving those bills around that...
...Jacobson and Frank Billings bought a $500 7-passenger Packard sedan with 16 cylinders one day and decided next morning that they should have gotten a convertible instead. So they sawed...
...Texans nearly ruined one of the reviews once. They couldn't march without swaying from side to side on their parenthetical legs, but we'd have gotten by except that one of them thought the uniform of the day should include chaps. At that, we were lucky. His original idea was to lead the platoon on his boss...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...