Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that a college basket-ball team has no more place in a professional sports arena like Madison Square Garden than a Jew in Hitler's bathtub." Despite this caustic comment by the Nation's occasional sportswriter, "Left Wing," 18,000 spectators sardined into Garden seats to watch New York University play Purdue...
Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket and though her name looks too good to be true, she is no made-over Choctaw or Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists...
...This sledging through rough country was hard work," Washburn said, "and was not that Clark Gable-Loretta Young type, with a basket on the sledge, and the rider all wrapped up in fur robes. Either you push the sledge from behind, or when you get too tired to do that, you would go forward to break the trail...
Italians rebutted as best they could last week against Sanctions. Dictator Mussolini, who some weeks ago persuaded fruitful Hungary, traditionally "Italy's bread-basket," not to join in Sanctions, last week signed a trade accord in Rome with the Hungarian Minister "to insure adequate food supplies...
Harvard College has laid all its eggs in another basket. Complete emphasis is placed on academic scholastic effort, the idea being to make us broadly cultured, educated men; the future is left to bring us down to earth. "What shall I major in to prepare myself for business?" the Harvard son asks. "Greek or Latin or Fine Arts," comes the inevitable answer...