Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that Democrat Jefferson will be commemorated...
...beginning to wonder when she will become 'promiscuous'-when she has had three lovers, or when she has had ten." Other perplexed souls who poured out their problems to Dr. Hotep included two well-brought-up college girls who wondered if it was safe for them to pick up strangers on trains, a sheltered boy who was sent to him to learn the facts of life but who turned out to be fully informed, a woman of 42 on the verge of a nervous breakdown; many, many others. Their confidences, together with Dr. Hotep's observations, make...
...certainly was a satisfaction to pick up the current copy of TIME [Jan. 10] and get the real story of that chap who went haywire out on the coast on a borrowed yacht...
...then pick me a handful of fruit- Adam and I'll eat it-and the Garden of Eden is all yours. What...
...Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern womanhood, relieved his feelings by grabbing America's 60 Families, slamming the book...