Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury of frightened white rabbits, parrots, and a sleepy possum that could not think what his name was. The judge, also dozing, is bound in red tape-red ribbons as Alice calls it. A very cross examination is interrupted by more news: PRIZE BEAUTY SLAYS LOVE MATE WITH ICE PICK AFTER JAZZ PARTY IN RICH NEST, and Alice's trial is over. Alice is advised to go into vaudeville, or write her Life Story, on the strength of her recent publicity, but she goes to W7ash-ington instead, and comes very near making hystery...
Please do not think I am trying to pick a fight, I just want to condemn the general tone and contents of Henderson's letter as an unpatriotic utterance and say that there is no glory in patting a wife and mother on the back and saying: "Your son or husband died a hero." That does not bring them back. What good would it do for Coolidge to take a flight? He's not seeking publicity. He does not need it. He's known and loved throughout the world and I say this although...
...regain the prestige it acquired with the publication of its "Transcript" issue and its still more celebrated and creditable Lasky number. That it should again play a ponderable part in Cambridge life must be the ambition of every editor, and a few New Yorker parodies would serve as admirable pick-me-ups to cure the hangover from which it has suffered. What Lampy needs now is not salts, but a few tall ones to keep up its good, nay, excellent spirits...
...wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive to Temugin, and accompanies him next day in the best mule litter, the one with springs...
With only a few days before the first scheduled game next fall, Coach Kershaw will be forced to pick this first team on the showing made by the men on the squad this spring...