Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives had forgotten to pick up in the city stores. Mrs. Schnaare was glad to keep it open a few hours every day just as a community service...
...fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...Robert H. Peckham, of Philadelphia's Temple University, got on the track of these findings during the war. As a Navy commander, he helped pick men for night-flying, spotting and gunnery duty. Servicemen at sea, or on sun-drenched coral islands, had to wear dark glasses in daytime if their eyes were to be any good at night...
Officers' pay ranges from $10 a week to the "about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly to any part of the world, at his superior's command...
...Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only...