Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long dis tance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
...realize, TIME, how I felt when 1 heard my own grandson plan to do such a thing and saw him pick up the New York Times to look for what I can only call a "victim...
...method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps: 1) pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long distance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
Judge Edward McCorrison, "Little King" (U. S. magistrate) of Molokai, had seen the wheezing ship pass over his courthouse and was among the first to welcome the visitors. He guided them to the local radio station. The army planes from Honolulu were sent over (60 miles southeast) to pick up heroes instead of victims. Pilot Smith used Charles Augustus Lindbergh's phrase as he set foot on Wheeler Field. "Well," he said, "here...
Track meets are won on paper, lost on the track. Judged by past performances, the pick of Yale's and Harvard's runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races...