Word: gotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...
Oddly enough the faculty showed surprising steam but in the end they lacked the punch previously demonstrated on the lecture platform. The Girls Volleyball game was a wow, and Col. Conner was in rare form as referee. McManus and McGivier should have gotten prizes for the ducking they took...
Hers to Hold (Universal) is another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings...
...Results. In one Chicago plant, a lottery slashed absenteeism and tardiness two-thirds. In several others, lotteries were dropped when they produced no improvement in attendance. Another plant found no improvement, but kept the lottery anyway. Said one official: "Maybe we're chumps. While things haven't gotten any better, they could easily get worse if we dropped the lottery, now that it's accepted and expected by employes." Lotteries have substantial limitations...
...closed wire before the broadcast). The program's author-producer-director, William N. Robson (TIME, March 8), thinks that the ether has been broken and that CBS can now go ahead to air other topical problems (inflation, black markets, etc.). To lend the race program authority, CBS had gotten Wendell Willkie to close it. The fact that his warm plea for tolerance was definitely an anticlimax was perhaps the best indication of the program's merit...