Word: basket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
...What is the difference between a basket...
...raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer it." He is still troubled with bad spells of absentmindedness. Shortly after he took office, he consulted with a civilian who seemed to know a lot about the navy. When the civilian left, Secretary Swanson turned to his secretary...
...newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told several women they were to go on trips...
Determined the harassed Freshman, "I shall really begin to study next fall. Studying, I now realize, is a privilege." Three yellow post cards fluttered into the waste-paper basket...