Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farnsworth said Steyskal's psychotic condition led the ex-Divinity student to believe he had been '"called upon" to preach a new philosophical doctrine. Only when his illness led him to pick on one person did Steyskal become "too dangerous to remain at large," Farnsworth said...
...junior officers with technical training in engineering, electronics, navigation, etc. So far, colonels, brigadiers and rear admirals-men in their 40s or beyond-are finding themselves most difficult to place. In factories and firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also be bad. "A knighthood," observed the London Economist, "is fatal; it often confines a man to running a charity...
Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
...Rosemarie's motherly care, Knorke regained his strength. She fed him on human baby food, soft-boiled eggs and fruit, and she spanked him when he was naughty. He would look at her reproachfully after a spanking, but he generally behaved for a while, at least. He would pick up a rag or a paper towel and try to help Rosemarie when she was cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that...
...Loving Couple and its five-year itch. Again as Dennis, he wrote (with Barbara Hooton) Guestward Ho!, the saddle-slipping saga of a Manhattan couple turned dude-ranch managers. On the assumption that the public is now hopelessly Tanner-Dennis-Rowans-addicted, his publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called The Pink Hotel. Neither equals the highly carbonated humors of Auntie Mame, but each is bubbly enough to fill the summer air with burps of spasmodic...