Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frequent contact with His Royal Highness had in fact soured on Edward. Typical comment: "He gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would ever ask. He doesn't even spend money in Vienna. Yesterday he went shopping for jewelry all day, pawed over priceless things for hours, then made his only purchase at a hardware store...
...appointment with my dentist," said Lillian Greneker in Manhattan last week, ''and I was impatient to leave the beauty parlor. I watched the manicurist drop the orange stick to pick up the emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool...
There were several things that happened there at the Pool that turned the tide on the Elis. Everyone know that Jameson and Cummin would win, that the medley team would win, that Charley Hutter would pick up least ten points. The things that counted were Rus Greenhood's winning the dive, Don Barker's third in the 100, and Jim Monroe's third in the breaststroke...
...worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis of Rebel Spanish cruisers lured by her fame...
...hard to pick out individuals in such a triumph; of course Charley Hutter, Graham Cummin, Greg Jameson and Rus Greenhood deserve all possible praise, but it was the team that triumphed and no group of individual stars. Through it all stands the figure of Hal Ulen, smiling, happy, dripping wet after the immersion in the pool he has so long been waiting...