Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Harding was casting about for a Secretary of Labor in 1921, there was much talk as to whether he should pick a businessman or a laborite. He compromised and chose Mr. Davis, a man who still carried his union card but who thought well of the open shop. The result was that Secretary Hoover, businessman, ran most of the labor affairs of the Cabinet. When the conference on unemployment was held in 1921, Mr. Hoover dominated it, causing Clinton W. ("Mirrors") Gilbert to remark that "the finest example of the unemployed at it was the Secretary of Labor...
...always good fun to compute the output of the Ford Motor Co., the centre of U. S. business romance. The Wall Street Journal from time to time publishes some crumbs of Ford information which its agents pick up in Detroit. That is where these statistics of Ford's year production came from, that the paper published last week...
Among the 40 works by this artist who is considered one of the greatest of living sculptors, which have been collected for this exhibition. It is difficult to pick out any one of two as particularly noteworthy. Certainly the most imposing are the two large statutes: Diana and Actaeon; yet it is in a small bronze the Dancer and Gazelles that the sculptor seems to have reached the peak of his art. There is a grace and skill in the composition and execution, a fragile beauty which leaves one almost in doubt whether such a thing can be done...
...permit is liberty of libel, which is also severely banned by American legislation. That is to say, we insist upon tranquillity arid security for the Italian people, whose productive rhythm must proceed without being disturbed. Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick up miserable scraps of paper which are thrown...
...this year to see for the first time that annual exodus from Cambridge with which for years Harvard students have celebrated the Christmas Spirit. To some, it means a front-seat rivalry for two short weeks with the mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such unessential differences...