Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Midwest Hotel Show officials confessed they had been unable to pick a suitable substitute name for hors d'oeumes from 988 words submitted in a contest, such as "cavanchocees," "exdiores." Proclaimed Hotelman William M. Dewey, appointing a new committee to continue the search for a synonym: "This is a very, very serious thing we are undertaking...
...hanged himself. More deductively to Mrs. Lawson wrote Mrs. S. I. Flournoy, State chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution: "I've heard of people hanging themselves from a lot of things, including chandeliers, but I should think if anybody wanted to kill himself he'd pick out something sturdier than our pretty little redbud." An Oklahoma City-ite named John Ishian said he had never heard of Judas trees growing in his native Jerusalem...
...stoop. Start from the foot-forward, scissors position. Bend one knee until it almost touches the floor. Bend the other knee less. To pick up anything use the hand on the side of the lower knee, simultaneously swinging the other arm to the rear for counterbalance...
...Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...York City medical schools have for the instruction of their 495 medical freshmen, the pick of the 30,000 unknown who die annually in the metropolis. The surplus dead are placed in plain coffins and hauled by barge to one of the East River islands for burial...