Word: pickings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Watson, you're Moody on a day like today! Caracciola! But if it's Oakes with you, Sage says 14-13. . . take ja pick...
...these tickets? That's a perfectly fair question. All you have to do is to pick the twins in the above picture. You might decide Joe and Shaver are the twins. Well, just put your answer down on paper and send it care of this paper. Be sure to include either 24 Lampoons, 12 Monthlies, six Advocates, or one CRIMSON along with your answer...
...Pick the twins and enclose the publications or publication (see above) with your answer...
...think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles and repeated phrases. Here...
...cagers have been drilling on the elements of shooting, passing, pivoting, and dribbling for the last few weeks in the Hemenway Gym. The first scrimmage was held Friday in an attempt to pick out the fifteen out standing men who will compose the first squad. These will be chosen next week, and Skip Stahley will take charge of them...