Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contact with big leaguers. And this, he claims, was "trying to mix oil with water." In 1918 he acquired a wife who objected to his wanderings from laundry to pressing, to shoe-cleaning, and shoes to baseball, with punches peppered over all. But by now, he says, "she's gotten used to it, though we still have to buy her silence by getting her tickets to the Harvard football games...
This is attested by her hilarious correspondence with her publishers, printed as an adjunct to the book. Lee on agents: "In the four years they've handled me they haven't gotten me so much as an Elks' smoker. NOT ONE DATE! I don't want to know from agents." On men: "I like my men on the monster side. A snarling mouth, evil eye, broken nose . . . thick ears. ... A nervous tic excites me and if with all these things he wore green suits-BANK NIGHT!" On her career: "I've been held over...
...that the Quaker end couldn't get to it, but the films plainly show that the national scholarship boy from Covina, California hadn't a Chinaman's chance of intercepting it. He had been seriously critized immediately after the game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare as the midriff on one of next year's bathing suits...
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Gotten, Everett Sloane; TIME, March...
Involved in a more or less histrionic way are, among others, Fay Wray and Betty Furness, a couple of fugitives from the Hollywood quickie lots who don't have too much to do, but look decorative. Hume Cronyn, who has gotten good notices in rather poor plays in the last few years, plays the politically ambitious D.A. and comes out pretty well trying to make a highly exaggerated role bearable through the whole evening. It might also be appropriate to mention in passing that one of the co-authors is the husband of Gloria Stuart...