Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
...alone-including refugees, businessmen, domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage German servants who might pick up some delicate tidbit of information...
...strangled and assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the basement of her tenement home. In Chicago, a 17-year-old high-school junior was convicted of assaulting a girl of 9 in the basement of an apartment building. The girl recovered from 37 stabs from a rusty ice pick, a file and a pair of shears, was the State's principal witness. In Los Angeles, a 32-year-old watchman was on trial for raping and murdering three little girls aged...
...shot back Senator McCarran, stopping his speech to pick up some papers from his desk and send them to the reading clerk...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...