Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked menacing. The Haji's son began to pick off the native road laborers from ambush. Last week the British Raj set out to spank the Haji...
Those who last always enjoy the competitions, as much as those who are cut dislike the experience. No cuts are made for a week, at least, to give you time to get into the swing. Sophomores and Juniors interested in the writing, and any who have bones to pick with the College or the world at large will find this a most satisfactory form of exercise, and should drop around at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening. If you can't write you will be entertained, if you can you'll be elected...
...tournament in 1931 thus neatly disposed of, the Open promptly became what it usually is, the climax of the summer's rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes...
...When Frod Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not delighting the eye by their dancing, Eric Blore and Everett Horton as butler and master tickle the risibilities with fast-paced dialogue. Helen Broderick, of "Band Wagon" fame, completes the triumvirate of finished comedians. The only bone the reviewer has to pick with the director concerning the whole production is that Helen Broderick was given such a relatively minor role...
...respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...