Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Kennedy: "I want to think about it a little bit. I've always done business with local firms and I've gotten a prospectus or something...
...last the critics and intellectuals have gotten Charley Chaplin, hook, line, and sinker. Conscious that he has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE to bring to America, he has in his first talkie painfully given birth to a bastard offspring in which Chaplin the world's greatest clown plays second fiddle to Chaplin the preacher...
That independence had gotten him many a black eye and bloody nose in the days when he was one of the four rough Willkie boys at Elwood, Ind., a talent for trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements...
Listing the various Fascist propaganda activities in this country, Professor Salvemini's pamphlet asserts that 11 Duce's agents have gotten control of most all of the Italian social organizations in this country and that Signer Luigi Villari of the Italian embassy in Washington directs a propaganda work consisting of priests, teachers, newspapers, and radio programs...
...exciting experience. On the other hand, conductors do not take enough for granted, such as the fact that the present-day concert audience is apt to be a good deal more sophisticated musically than the audience of five years ago; through records and the radio, it has gotten to know much great music, and it demands in consequence a more varied fare than the old concert repertoire. Laziness, too, may account for the way conductors tend to neglect many equally good, but less known works. It takes time, energy and patience to train as orchestra in a new piece, which...