Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened last week, to the joy and profit of a great many ladies and gentlemen. There are ladies who would not scramble to pick up chips worth 10,000 francs ($621) each. There are gentlemen who would not fight with each other over 10,000-franc chips. But no such gentlefolk seemed to be in Monte's Casino last week when the roulette-fagged croupier went crazy. No. 13 had just come up on the wheel he was spinning. Jumping up wild-eyed from his doughnut, he seized handfuls of 10,000 franc chips, flung them wildly all over...
...pick out drawings that could be called representative. . . . Such a long job, out of 40 years of drawing for the old magazines, Puck, Life, The Masses, The Metropolitan, so I told Alma Reed (she runs the gallery) that it would also be my last show...
...first Roosevelt budget which may set a peacetime record. Other Committee chairmen - Steagall of Banking & Currency, Jones of Agriculture, Sumners of Judiciary, Sam Rayburn of Interstate & Foreign Commerce - were last week all as busy as beavers putting together legislative ideas out of which President Roosevelt will take his pick on money, farm relief, liquor, transportation...
...year 1933 was the fourth in the greatest industrial crisis in history. Standing between an old world that was forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...minded individuals might pick Italo Balbo, leader of Italy's mass flight to the World's Fair, as the year's outstanding airman. But the Federation Aeronautique Internationale hinted that it would make no award this year, having honored Flyer Balbo once before...