Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lares. In Washington, arrested for toting an ice pick in the bosom of her blouse, Mrs. John L. Williams blandly explained: "I was moving and I just needed some place to carry...
Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...
...card which came out on Tuesday of that week had Harvard favored by seven points. The subscriber could either pick Harvard to win by more than that or Holy Cross to loose by less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...
...Quick to pick up new ideas, Miss Brucher already sees in America's League of Women Voters a political weapon that might be used in Germany. In legislative halls, she has plugged for equal rights for the sexes and pushed through a bill giving equality in rights and pay to women office holders...
Some 5,500,000 New York State voters are expected at the polls today to pick the winner of a bitter and close political Senatorial race between former New York governor Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat-Liberal candidate and Senator John Foster Dulles running on the Republican ticket...