Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick them up and throw them in in all their Sunday clothes...
Last week Colorado's regents met in Boulder to pick a man for rugged Dr. Norlin's job. Now ill and 68, Dr. Norlin had insisted on retiring. After considering 67 candidates, finding some too rugged, some scornful of the $8,000 salary, the regents elected Dr. Norlin's protege, Robert Stearns...
Illinois's new resident artist boasts: "I never had any training in the fine arts or painting, thank goodness!" A member of the Sanity in Art Group, which considers "modernist" a synonym for "lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...
Cuba's tobacco was due for a fall, sugar for a rise. Havana was proposed as a free port, where both sides could pick up the raw materials of death from neutral sellers...
...apple falling from a tree may have started Isaac Newton on the way to the Law of Gravitation, but such falls are disastrous to modern orchardists. They want to pick their fruit from the trees, not gather it off the ground. Grounded apples are spoiled by bruises and rotting. Science cannot suspend the Law of Gravitation for beleaguered orchardists, but last week it offered them a substitute in the form of a chemical apple-stem toughener...