Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing husband are plugging along in vaudeville when Jenny gets an offer for a contract from a big movie producer who happens also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head. The police pick up her husband for murder but Jenny decides to keep mum to both her husband and the police, thinking that her confession would destroy his love. Her failure to confess causes much agony, but the film has a neat solution...
...Confusion. So most correspondents 1) hang around the British P.I.O. for handouts, and pick the brains of Arab and Jewish newsmen in the bar; 2) attend the daily Jewish Agency press conference in Ben Yehuda Street; 3) pump their Jewish and Arab stringers and contacts. The only way of getting any accurate picture is to go out yourself, and this is getting harder...
Agent La Boyne's office hours are from 8 a.m. until the last race is run, and he can usually take his pick of mounts. Because favorites obviously have a better chance of winning than long shots, Bones seldom books Arcaro to ride any 15-to-1 horses. Many bettors put their money on whatever horse Arcaro is riding, thus shortening the odds further still; his reputation helps make a lot of false favorites. Arcaro is an unsound betting proposition. Eddie himself used to bet on his horses, says he gave it up because "I don't think...
Experimental Ownership. The same profound suspicion, he says, accounts for many odd quirks of Negro behavior. Negro tenants who pick up and leave their farrners sometimes do so, Cohn says, for a purely experimental purpose: to find out if they will really be allowed to keep mules or farm implements which they have bought from the landlord...
...Student Council meets for the last time tonight, and it will take time out to allow next term's newly-elected Council to pick a president, treasurer, and secretary for itself...