Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital authorities," says Humorist Benchley coldly, "that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. It does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed., inscribed ("in bull's blood") to "Garbage-Bird...
...things to paint, Belgian Paul Delvaux liked nothing better than painting naked, big-breasted women on windy beaches, crowded streets and moonlit terraces, among Greek ruins and in Empire ballrooms. Sometimes he showed them stooping to pluck a rose from the floor or from under a passing trolley...
...helped to expand the assets of his firm tenfold in the last eight years, likes to dismiss his many big operations (in hotels, theaters, apartments, oil wells, piers, night clubs, a small railroad, and smaller shopping centers) as "making grapefruit out of lemons." This grapefruit, which he hopes to pluck by 1948, would be his juiciest...
...were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were in the fight. He went . . . with his sleeves tucked up and his big camera directed upon every point of interest in the field. It is certain they [the soldiers] did not get away from Brady as easily as they did from...
...planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted to pick...