Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beta Kappa from Cornell, Monkey Wrench never bothered to pick up an advanced degree; campus legend has it that he was outraged when the University of Wisconsin told him that he would have to type his thesis (he had written it out in longhand on scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours...
...that Art Patron Eddie Marsh had persuaded Mrs. Churchill to buy. Said Painter Walter Sickert, who was visiting Churchill: "Our little friend Eddie is not without a certain idiot flair." Last week, four months after Edward Howard Marsh died at the age of 80, a London gallery displayed the pick of the pictures he had collected for himself over the years, and the critics came to a kinder conclusion: "A great midwife of the arts...
...special meeting of the Board of Overseers held this morning in University Hall. A meeting of the 30-man Board is required in order to act on the choice made by the Corporation, and the fact of the unscheduled meeting indicates that the six-man group has made its pick...
Head Immigration official Ralph Remington explained last night that the two officers, Joseph Geary and Walter C. Hogan, had taken Vembu back to the International House to pick up his clothes when he escaped...
...HOPKINS READER (308 pp.)-Edifed by John Pick-Oxford...