Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gorgeous Georgios retorted that so far as faithfulness is concerned Elizabeth is well known to be keeping a "Secretary," handsome Alexander Szanavy. Since her union with Georgios II was childless, they added, it will be just as well for His Majesty to return unencumbered to the Throne and pick a more fruitful Queen. Few days later Elizabeth and her M. Szanavy, with Carol and his Mme Lupescu, celebrated in high spirits the granting of the divorce by Rumania's Appeal Court...
...first stop in Peoria more than 400 retailers boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
...less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap. In desperation ever since 1917, the commanders have been trying to pick a sure thing...
Just why a gang should pick the youngest of a poor widow's eight children as a likely extortion victim, Lois Thompson could not explain. Neither could anyone else. Daniel Shaw politely denied the whole story, said he hardly knew the girl. But as defense attorneys pointed out, he had admittedly sojourned in San Francisco "which is the headquarters of the white slave business" and in Illinois "where John Dillinger and his gang had their hideouts." Anyway, concluded one attorney, he was probably a Japanese...
...enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then blackmailed Mose's best friend to refute his claim of self-defense...