Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during a three-day trip to New York with her mother to see some plays, do some shopping (at Peck & Peck, she proved that there's a certain kind of woman who can look at clothes without buying any) and, most important, help Sister Luci Baines pick out a trousseau for her Aug. 6 wedding. The afternoon before the Lasker bash, Lynda graced a table at Manhattan's scintillating La Caravelle restaurant, while her Secret Service escort went around the corner for a less Lucullan lunch. Their rented Mercury stayed put in a "no parking-tow away" zone...
Those you shouldn't bet against are easier to pick. First on the list go all Supreme Court Justices not already honored. The Corporation likes Supreme Court Justices better than anything except presidents of the World Bank...
Eminent retiring professors are always likely prospects, but every so often the Fellows throw a change up and pick someone who's still teaching. (Douglas Bush, retiring Gurney Professor of English Literature, got a Litt.D. in 1959, for example.) So they might just pull William Alfred...
Last week Eddy Arnold was on the road again. Only this time he rode up in a big Cadillac car to pick up $5,000 for an evening of pickin' and singin' at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. What was a li'l ole country boy doing in a big fancy place like that? "This is the fulfillment of a lifetime dream," drawled Eddy, all fancied up in a tuxedo and string tie. Backed by a 17-piece orchestra, he sang about humpback mules, lonesome hearts and them old cottonfields back home in a mellifluous baritone that...
...community, half are made on churches, not on homes or stores. Since traditionally churches are safe long-term credit risks, it is questionable whether the bank really needs the accounts which Hudgins solicits in his sermons to back the church mortgages. It appears that he is simply trying to pick up accounts by using the churches as a medium of free advertising for the bank...