Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances or 'pick-ups.' Over half the entire group of 500 women had illegitimate pregnancies, and a third gave birth to children out of wedlock...
Retorted Mrs. Holmsen: "It just so happens that I come from one of New York's very best families and my friends and relatives number among the most popular here and abroad. . . . If [the waiter] doesn't like bare feet and shorts, ladies who pick up gentlemen and who order milk hot but not boiled and freshly squeezed orange juice, he has but to say so in ordinary polite language...
...announced with glee that they expected a much larger haul tonight and the CRIMSON has found out through its own devious sources that Cambridge police are already entering the game since the Yard Cops, chasing the student chariot off University property, makes it a cinch for local flatfoots to pick them up on municipal byways. This makes the already uneven struggle oven more unfair and will eventually end by forcing the poor car-owning student into the greedy toils of the many garage owners about the square...
Sirs: ... If you insist upon likening Warren William's profile to a fish, why pick out a carp [TIME, Sept. 3]? A pickerel, which has been glorified by the automobile manufacturers in the last two years, would have served much better. Or a trout! Or a bass! Warren, born and reared in the game fish region of Northern Minnesota, could hardly look like a carp . . . as there are few of this undesirable species in Northern Minnesota's sky-blue waters. . . . Warren is acquainted only with the better class of fish- real finny beauties...
...badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Française, drill secretly for service under "King Jean...