Word: gotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, after a decade of the greatest industrial achievement man had ever known, many a citizen had gotten the same feeling about the productive capacity of the U.S. The idea that one nation could successfully jack up the whole Western world, put it on wheels and tow it along, perhaps for decades, was almost too fantastic to grasp. Here was the U.S. with the Korean war to fight, with India to feed, with Europe to supply, arm and encourage, with enormous armed forces to be raised and equipped at home. It was a gigantic project-a productive effort completely...
...gotten a prison sentence sometime, I might have been good on the guitar...
Brief Encounter set the story in a London suburb, told it plausibly and sensitively. Its plain, conscience-smitten lovers each nearing respectably married middle age, could never enjoy their unglamorous fun as much as they suffered their pathetic frustration. September Affair's lovers (Joan Fontaine and Joseph Gotten) have wealth, good looks, talent and an itinerary that covers Naples, Rome, Florence and the isle of Capri. They come close to eating their cake and having...
...Fontaine-Gotten affair 'is thrust upon them by a plot gimmick, as if it were fate. Strangers on a plane that stops in Naples for repairs, they miss its departure while sightseeing. The plane crashes. Listed as dead, they are free to make a new life far from Cotten's wife (Jessica Tandy) and son. For a while, until the past (and the Production Code) catches up with the lovers, life becomes an idyl in a palazzo. Renunciation finally comes not so much from themselves as from the prodding of other characters...
Like many another well-heeled man about town, Purcell had also gotten into show business; he had established a firm called Star Management Co. and was managing a string of nightclub singers. He helped promote one of them, a buxom and glad-eyed lass named Terri Stevens, by getting her named Miss Firefighter of 1950. Singer Toni Arden, who was appearing at Houston's Shamrock Hotel last week, said he had presented her with $4,000 worth of gowns. Singer Madelyn Russell announced, dimpling prettily, that he had given her lots of "good advice" about her career...