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...report a bribe offer, banned in Illinois and 13 other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained that business about being AWOL: "Do I look like the kinda guy who'd duck a fight? They put me to work pickin' up cigarette butts and orange peels at Fort Dix. I wish to God now I picked 'em up." Rocky promised to give all but one dollar of his earnings to charity, if they would just let him fight. Washington gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Pickin' for Patsy (Jack Teagarden-Brunswick). Heart-lifting guitar work by Allen Reuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: July Records | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Charlie Jones, 49, big and ruddy tunnel worker, wheezed: "The only work I could do after I left the tunnel-that was only a bit-was pickin' bony at the tipple at the coal mine. And that's the easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Some of these girls sure is roses," remarked one of the maids at a Radcliffe dormitory in a recent CRIMSON interview. "Course, you can't expect them all to be good, but then, some of them are pretty poor pickin's. I guess you young folks nowadays call 'emlousy, that's a misuse of the word, but some of them do leave a little ring on the bathtub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Femme de Chambre Computes No Percentage in Madonnas of Shepard Street--Flays Girls for Naivete | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

...PICKIN COTTON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

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