Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 29): the "Texan who had one of the plush seats sent to him so he could 'listen in style' " happened to be me. While in New York in 1937, I read that the Metropolitan Opera House was being renovated. Mr. Brown, the building superintendent, let me pick out the seat that I wanted, and had it sent to me. Its back has the original upholstery put there...
...heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen are apt to move to the front of the room, pick up borrowed instruments and join...
...this claim with its private ownership bill. The Bundestag is likely to pass the bill this fall, unless Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is upset in September's elections by the Socialists, who favor continued nationalization. But German politicians believe that the very announcement of the stock ownership plan will pick up votes for the Adenauer-Erhard team, help put it back in office to see the plan carried...
Yale's squad will pick up almost an extra week of practice time on the Crimson as the Blue set up practice camp at Gales Ferry tomorrow...
Hungary Prevented. Stefan Wyszynski was in Rome last week to get, among other things, the cardinal's red hat that was awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was a prisoner of the Communists. A cardinal's hat is red to symbolize its wearer's willingness to defend the faith "even unto the shedding of his blood.'' But Wyszynski's greatness lies in his prevention of bloodshed...