Word: picker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in a cabin in the cotton, Mary McLeod went to work early. As a child, she says, "I was a great little picker. I knew how to organize things." When she got a chance to go to school, five miles away, she taught her family every night what she had learned.'She got a scholarship at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute, but went back South, disappointed, when the missions would not send her to Africa...
After corn-cultivating comes hay harvest and oat harvest (oats are threshed). Corn harvest begins in October with a mechanical picker owned in common by Dale and two of Gus's brothers. The Kuesters heave the corn from the first ripe field into Gus's barnlike crib, the next field into Dale's, and turn & turn about until the job is done. It is usually done in time for the strenuous work of loading the first finished pigs for market...
...Latin American sports argot contains many words borrowed from English and Hispanicized. Examples: beisbol, jutbol, tim, picker...
Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
...staying power the three volumes are certainly worth the price as a 1) folksy, firsthand account of the making of the 46th state and the unmaking of one of America's last big frontiers; the description, told with disarming simplicity, of Murray's rise from boy cotton picker to governor; 2) for a homespun insistence on the dignity of the individual man, the value of personal enterprise and the danger of increasing Government power; 3) the Murray version of Oklahoma's troubled politics. The three volumes are also a fabulous item of Americana...