Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought, if the owners' prices are not too dear. Of his Vendee landlady Clémenceau said, not long before he died, with typical Tigeresque cynicism: "She is a royalist countess. She did nothing with this place before I came. It was nothing to her. So I got it on a lease for my lifetime at 300 francs a year [$12]. Now she thinks when I die that perhaps the Government would like to buy it. So in that case she will put on a large price and make money out of the last home of Clémenceau...
...Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court one day last week. On an improvised cinema screen flashed the images of a detective, a stenographer, a glum young man. The young man's lips moved. A loudspeaker blatted: "This summer I robbed 25 homes on my milk route. The loot I got was worth $10,000. . . I have not been beaten nor forced to make this confession...
...possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...
Then she started a children's camp in Virginia. In 1914 she founded Foxcroft. The War probably helped her quite as definitely as it helped U. S. munitions makers, though differently. People were not sending their daughters off to school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter...
...that more stenographers visited than artists, that 28,000 arrived by private car, 32,000 by taxi. The majority came because "someone told them about it." The favorite room in the Museum was the Pennsylvania German* Hall and next the German bedroom. English paintings attracted 79.000; only 10,000 got any reaction from Oriental rugs...