Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good. But he then had to pick a prize crew to man the ship he had taken. He tried it, found that there were altogether too many volunteers...
...Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
...Here in southern Ohio, the buckeye is one of our most common?I mean numerous?foresttrees. It grows everywhere. I have six in my back garden. I am confident that, in an afternoon's automobile ride around the Cincinnati hills, Mr. Davey or anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers, and it is a great sight here to see these radiant green trees standing in the forest that is otherwise dull and colorless...
...this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson. She plays the young lady with such astonishing ability that all fears that Peter Pan would be her only claim to fame are gratefully laid aside, and another actress of the first rank is admitted to the small company of the actual artists...
...theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...