Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general favorite; and Coach Moakley has developed a powerful, well balanced squad up at Ithaca. But the Big Red team is in for a real battle against both Dartmouth and Yale; Harvard, unless there is a startling upset, will trail the winner, though Jaakko Mikkola's men might pick up third place. Their principal importance will come in determining how many points they will take away from Cornell and Dartmouth in the running events; Northrop might beat Meadon and Donovan might beat Pender, two events that would toss the Big Red pretty much out of the running...
...Louis, doctors insisted that Mayor Dickmann sign the ordinance in the interest of public health, though it would require practically all users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...
...Greek dance by the villainness on shoes whose soles Lily Pons has carefully soaped. A series of attempts by the immigration officers to find the French girl on the persons of "McLean's Wildcats" caused the second waterfall. Amid so many good scenes, the best is hard to pick, but the title probably goes to the swing version of "The Blue Danube Waltz". Nevertheless it is Lily Pons alone only who takes the picture out of the minor leagues into the big money. Let's hope she does many more...
...being $600,000 to Cartier, but beyond that nothing has been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schönbrunn; I know it so well...
...North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers. In a wild outburst of Russian firing the cruiser Aurora was hit (luckily by duds) and several of the fishing boats sunk with their hapless crews. In the excitement no one stopped to pick up survivors. That hysterical episode quickly became a diplomatic incident of grave importance; only after thoroughgoing apologies and explanations was the Baltic Fleet allowed to proceed...