Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village, the great wireless mast grounded in the glacier, then withdraw for ten months to escape the six months' night which is the Antarctic winter. In the autumn of 1929 they will return to pick up the expedition, carry it back to the U. S. early...
...milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance to know that the Americans are "Real." Pick on "Tom" he can stand a little picking, there is lots of him, but respect his Mother, as you would want yours respected. This scribble is from a good bit-O-Scotch in California...
...Another pick-up was that of the Polish flyers, Kasimir Kubala and Louis Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec...
...wanted to organize a good "racket," with department stores as your particular victims, you might work it out this way: Send Miss T - to New York or Chicago or Philadelphia, $300 in her pocketbook. Tell her to pick the name of some reputable citizen from the telephone book, then start an account in her name at a local bank, using the good check as a first deposit. This done, she could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without...
...last splintered fragment fell, Citizen Morren waved his pick at the huge crowd and helplessly irate police below, crying: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We Belgians are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...