Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goldcoasters are holding a bowling tournament to pick the House alley team, with twenty men in the lists, it was announced yesterday. The Adams men are practicing with candle pins...
...Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some 400 survivors from the Baleares' 750-man crew. Same day Leftist warplanes, determined to scuttle Franco's flagship, bombed it seven times. At latest reports it was slowly foundering, a smoldering, blackened hulk...
...from Yeats and T. S. Eliot to Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Almost every contemporary English and American poet of distinction appeared in its pages or was involved in its battles. But although readers of A Poet's Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull in the telling...
...popular conceptions, that Japan is on the verge of a revolution, and that Fascism is on the upgrade there, he branded as false. Almost unanimously the people believe that the land of the rising sun must "expand or explode"; any quarrel the people have to pick is with the means, not with the end. There is no more Fascism than in any nation at war, he said...
Only once was Hindmarsh arrested by Japanese police in Shanghai, and that was outside the Soviet Embassy. In the war zone after the Panay incident, officers were instructed to pick up all Americans and apologize profusely for the bombing. "I got feeling a little guilty about the Panay after four or five arrests," Hindmarsh said...