Word: gotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fight against odds," Pugilist James J. Braddock was represented as declaring of his lackpenny preparation for winning the heavyweight championship. "But when it came to milk . . . well, we gave up a lot of things but never milk. I don't think I ever could have gotten in shape without it." Other witnesses to milk's athletic potency: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Grantland Rice...
...Muse was flashing her most winsome smile, and the boys were doing beautifully. They hadn't gotten very far; they were still dallying in the olive groves with Socrates and Plato. And the topic under discussion was the Platonic super being, or the Natural Man. Apparently the latter gentleman had not been very closely defined...
...with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Too bad. that the Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen-suspension. Then our personal feud would have stood: 1-to-1. You see, Dr. Buswell had me suspended, without even giving me a hearing (he was in a hurry to catch a train) just because they discovered I smoked a pipe in my own apartment...
...little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that isn't the whole truth-the whole expose of the whole business...
...interpreting these appeals in the worst light possible. They are confessions that some banks have made bad or illiquetiable loans to their own officers. The public's feeling is that if such bad or illiquetiable loans have been made to an ordinary citizen, he would have 'gotten the works' long ago, been sold out or required to obtain additional endorsement or collateralization which would have made his loan legitimately renewable...