Word: pickering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Kieran is short, wiry, grey, bristly and brilliant. Daily in his sport column he reports ball players speaking with the tongues of savants, quotes Latin, law, manages to be humorist, poet and picker of winners. John's radio foray revealed him further as a Shakespeare scholar, an expert on birds and nature, a walking record book on sports, the most dependable know-it-all of Information Pleased omniscient pack...
...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
Henry F. Atherton 1L snagged the first place as the Senior oarsmen neared the finish line, of the one mile course, while Harvey Picker, winer of the Junior Singles the day before, and Thomas J. Darcey '37, winner of the 155 pound competition last year, tied for the second berth...
...Harvey Picker 2GB, crossed the finish line one length ahead of Peter F. Cunningham '39, in the rain yesterday to win the Junior Singles in 5:25 time. Both will be entered in the Senior race today...
Senior Singles, at 4:30 o'clock: Ivan M. Korbel '39; Henry F. Atherton 1L; Thomas J. Darcey '37; Harvey Picker 2GB; and Peter F. Cunningham...