Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit is an example of departmental jealousy triumphant. . . . The beating...
Winnie Winkle the Bread Winner, syndicated comic-strip heroine by Cartoonist Martin Branner, has been on a camping trip. One day, last fortnight, a snake appeared in camp. Her companion yelled: "Don't let that snake get away. One of you pick up a stick or a stone and kill it!" Near the snake was a stick. The last picture showed Winnie waving the snake wildly above her head, the companion screaming: "EEEEEEK! She picked up the SNAKE to hit the STICK with...
...snake when the strip was published in the Times. In place of the snake appeared a toad, hurriedly scratched in. In place of the stick was a rock. In place of the blurbs were other blurbs: "Don't let that toad get away. One of you pick up a rock or something and kill it! . . . EEEEEEK! She picked up the TOAD to hit the ROCK with...
...Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer home Mrs. Hert was "hopeful" that the National Committee would pick Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names...