Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how fast Kay can rise to popularity will depend a lot on James Caesar Petrillo (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The songs of hers that Capitol stored away were largely what were handed to her. The pick of what new tunes were around had already gone to Stafford, Whiting and Lee; Kay got the scraps...
...swank Palace Hotel, untitled rich and titled rich & poor had their choice of more varieties of scotch than could be had in all Paris. Celebrity-hunters had their pick of ex-King Peter and Alexandra of Yugoslavia, any number of princes and dukes, Britain's famed Jockey Gordon Richards, or Paulette Goddard...
...should like to say that the CRIMSON'S worth to me included these two clear things among others: experience and friends. The necessity, as a CRIMSON candidate, to chase around the college scene and try to pick up news gave an acquaintance with Harvard facts and persons which otherwise a Freshmen would not have had. Writing articles both as a candidate and later on as a editor gave at least a little insight into the techniques of a newspaper. Added to this was the companionship with a highly congenial group of fellow editors which, nearly throughout my time...
Dress as You Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...
...between local contractors and Local 339 of the painters' union (A.F.L.) took an unexpected turn. The painters, who had begun by asking a 14½? an hour increase, ended by agreeing to a 2½? an hour cut. The painters reasoned that business, which had fallen off, might pick up again if painting costs went down...