Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ulein Lucker, robust, buxom, was paired in climbing with a lean, nervous youth, her fiance. With pick and pole and hatchet the party labored upward. Suddenly a blinding Alpine snow storm swept upon them, continued for 24 hours...
Sirs: A suggestion-merely a suggestion : TIME'S style is piquant, ticklesome, unique. Of an evening, bored and sleepy, I pick it up for the sheer intellectual pins-and-needles it jabs into me-spurring to action ("Write that letter!"), inspiring to wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style...
...worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams." She hated to leave when the battleship came to rescue...
Whom the Democrats will nominate for Senator remains uncertain. It is known, however, that Tammany expects to pick a "dripping Wet." So whether the Dry forces can defeat Wadsworth or not, New York seems certain to have a Wet Senator for the next six years...
From this squad Coach Brown will pick his second crew. Of the men who are not placed on the second crew, four will be given places on the combination crew...