Word: pickin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pickin' for Patsy (Jack Teagarden-Brunswick). Heart-lifting guitar work by Allen Reuss...
Charlie Jones, 49, big and ruddy tunnel worker, wheezed: "The only work I could do after I left the tunnel-that was only a bit-was pickin' bony at the tipple at the coal mine. And that's the easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin...
...Some of these girls sure is roses," remarked one of the maids at a Radcliffe dormitory in a recent CRIMSON interview. "Course, you can't expect them all to be good, but then, some of them are pretty poor pickin's. I guess you young folks nowadays call 'emlousy, that's a misuse of the word, but some of them do leave a little ring on the bathtub...