Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment, to which he is exiled (and where blonde Joyce Matthews, ex-wife of Milton Berle, slashed her wrists in a fit of melancholy last summer) "is much more...
...certain that Eisenhower can get the Republican nomination, Douglas stated. He added that by convention time the Republicans might feel confident enough of victory to pick Senator Taft, who is less of a vote-getter but more in favor with the party's leaders than the General...
Nicolai Ivanov was a man who was happily married, wealthy, vigorous, and respected. He had everything to live for. But now his world has tumbled down about him. He is not only unable to pick himself up from the ruins, he does not even know quite what the ruins are. He feels "guilty," "lost in despair," but he cannot understand why. He turns on his tubercular wife who had renounced her family and her Jewish faith for the love of him, and he cannot fathom the reason for the disappearance of his own passionate devotion to her. He just feels...
Routine Flight. The flight on Nov. 19 to Belgrade was strictly routine: ferrying a cargo of supplies for the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. The airmen lost their bearings on instruments over the Alps, could not pick up any radio signals, were running low on fuel. They prepared for an emergency landing. Shortly after dark, an aircraft ("It was going so fast it must have been a fighter") flew in front of them. The C-47 followed it on to a lighted field. Pilot Henderson thought he was in Yugoslavia. He could not identify the uniformed men who swarmed around...
Westward the Women (MGM) is the showmanlike saga of an 1851 trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...