Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe it was the glass backboards. Maybe it was stage fright. At any rate, the Varsity played like a pick-up unit last night at the Garden when it took a 52 to 36 spanking from an aggressive Boston University quintet before a crowd of 7500. Halftime score...
Congressmen wondered if Harry Truman might go one historic step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...
...money in the bank and the world's best singers to pick from. But the first three weeks had passed with little but mediocre opera-and sometimes worse. In staging and pace, the Met still hadn't picked up any tips from its Broadway neighbors. The scenery was shabby: that was familiar. The singers couldn't act: that was nothing new. But worst of all, some of the singers couldn't even sing...
...cover its embarrassment, the Met offered a surprising explanation: Soprano Schleuter had been signed by the Met without being seen or heard-merely on secondhand recommendations, and the name she had made for herself in Germany's shabby postwar opera. It was a common practice, to pick singers that way, added...
...doubt of it, a memorable thing to have, at one heave of the pick, dug out the entire psychological mosaic of this perfect, almost, book; and no less memorable, in a filmic way, to have- senza cerimonia, as it were-substituted a pleasant, if rather extended charade. Though the need for the substitution remains obscure...