Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepting the MacNider resignation, President Coolidge said: "... I know that you have made a great deal of sacrifice to stay on longer than you expected." And, hushing the Senate rumor, Col. MacNider said he was going to "pick up a business which of necessity has been badly neglected...
...which no doubt influences many to stay away from an evening's enjoyment for them. . . . Don't bother to look for my name on your list of subscribers as it isn't there, for I am continually on the move and find it much easier to pick one up somewhere each week, than to bother trying to have one trail me, but I haven't missed reading one in ages, and don't intend...
...went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...
...including children, constitute a tremendous market for a caffein-free coffee." President George Gund of the Kaffee Hag Corp. will continue to manage its Cleveland factory. Furniture & Furnishings. If a hotel, restaurant, hospital, school, railroad or ship requires furnishings, the source of supply usually first thought of is Albert Pick, Barth Inc., largest company of its kind. Last week it became larger by absorbing seven companies that manufacture wooden or sheet metal furniture and sell the pieces through chains of retail furniture stores. A $30,000,000 consolidation, this was the greatest in the history of furniture and allied industries...
...tunes in strange hieroglyphics comprehensible only to himself. Now he presents them as The American Songbag.* There are some 280, and, like the family piecebag, they are of all colors and patterns. There are songs of sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives...