Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers just put a stop to it. There was no trouble although a number of them . . . fired into the air. They told the pickers there was plenty of cotton to pick in Warren County and asked them to stay home and pick it. They decided to stay...
...peasant and takes his communism literally. His only weakness is a passion for basketball. At the Communist capital of Yenan the generalissimo could generally be found after hours at one or another of the city's eight basketball courts, waiting humbly in line for some team captain to pick him for a team. Despite his enthusiasm, the generalissimo is a poor hand at dribbling and passing. Very often he must sit with the subs. To his followers last week General Chu sent this message...
...grandfather's pet pastime at dinner was to pick news stories apart. "Mrs. John Jones has been ill for some time" he would read. "What the devil does some time mean?" was his protest. "A week or a year...
Ronald Colman, who can pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally...
When a French author is looking for a thoroughly sombre background he is apt to pick that part of France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather...