Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down their own instead. Once a particularly conspicuous wave of amatory misbehavior moved Smith's administration to call a compulsory chapel. President Neilson appeared, cocked his head to one side, and instead of delivering the expected lecture remarked: "If you must kiss men, you will do well to pick gentlemen. They never tell...
...second of a series of home and home soccer games with Yale, Harvard was defeated three to nothing Saturday at New Haven. Fourteen soccer players journeyed to Yale to play the informal out of season game. Several Freshmen were included on the pick up team. A week ago at Soldiers Field the Elis also beat the Crimson booters, this time three to two. Manager Donald C. Goodrich, who accompanied Saturday's team, announced that this ends the spring soccer practice season...
Trouble came when Sheriff Harvey Odell of San Joaquin deputized 1,000 Stockton businessmen, armed them with pick handles and put them under the leadership of Colonel Walter Garrison, president of the reactionary Associated Farmers of California. Police and deputies surrounded the canneries as preparations were made to reopen them. Signal for battle was the shout of "Here she comes!" raised by a crowd of pickets...
With all the stories in the world to choose from, which story would a shrewd cinema producer pick to coincide with the coronation of a King of England? This was one problem which last year faced Warner Brothers' Associate Executive in Charge of Production Hal Wallis. For a cinema producer, problems never come singly. Another and more difficult riddle for Producer Wallis was this: what were the best roles in which to cast two 12-year-old identical twins who looked so much alike that their mother could scarcely tell them apart? One test of a cinema producer...
...named William Allen White of The Emporia Gazette wrote for his 485 subscribers a scorching editorial against Bryan's Populists, called What's the Matter with Kansas?* Famed Republican Boss Mark Hanna plastered the U. S. with it in the McKinley-Bryan campaign, offered its author his pick of a job; big city dailies did the same. Editor White turned down both offers, but did not drop out of sight. From then on he was No. 1 U. S. country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped...