Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials and members of the Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall is a character known as the Confidential Waste Man. A trusted secret service employe, it is his duty to empty every Government trash-basket in Whitehall, burn the contents himself...
...cooperation, it was observed that two apes would soon learn to work together on a rope to bring a basket of food within reach. When one wanted to quit work, he patted the other on the back...
...story, as properly in a musical, is not much, but is gratifyingly free of dear old U. S. Navy claptrap and features a pleasantly satiric song about the Atlantic and the Pacific and "the admiral who's never been to sea." "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Let Yourself Go," "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and "Where Are You?" are all hits. A wistful little girl named Harriet Hilliard sings the latter...
...Hall-Mills trial of 1926, Dorothy Dix has devoted herself exclusively to her perplexed public. To her handsome town house on New Orleans' shady Prytania Street now go some 500 daily letters, carried from the post office by her Negro chauffeur in an ample, well-worn market basket. Every inquiry is answered by letter or in print. Dorothy Dix spends the morning sorting mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth. A few howlers...
Their nine-man squad averages 6 ft. 5. Centres Willard Schmidt and Joe Fortenberry are 6 ft. 9 and 6 ft. 8 respectively. When the team travels, they sleep on hotel bedroom floors. They have perfected a technique called "dunking," with which they score by jumping up above the basket, dropping the ball into it. On the defense, they prevent opponents from scoring by batting the ball out of the basket...