Word: pickers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...then headed for the office on a bus whose fare was a third higher than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through rising prices to buy what it wanted as a berry picker reaches into a nettle patch. "Sure, they're buyin'," said a Boston salesgirl, "but they're lookin' and pawin' and hemmin' and hawin' before they...
...first money brought his winnings to $198,677-an all-time record for a two-year-old colt.* It was the third Futurity win for both Arcaro and Owner Widener, who is president of Belmont Park and chairman of the Jockey Club as well as a good picker of sales yearlings...
...Countess' world is shattered one day when she learns that her friends are unhappy because the "pimps" are taking over. (The pimps, explains the Rag-picker, are the parasites and non-productive members of society--presidents and vice-presidents of corporations, to be specific but non-inclusive,) The Countess sets out to rid Chaillot of such wickedness, which she manages to do in short order, there being "nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." How she accomplishes this, and the introduction it affords to the Countess...
...Madwoman is warm and human and views the world through a dewy spider's web which she is constantly brushing from her eyes. It is an inspired performance. Other outstanding players are Estelle Winwood, as the Madwoman's gaily demented pal, John Carradine as the oratorical rag-picker, and Lydia Westman and Elconora Mendelssohn as the other accomplices...