Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With plays as yet untouched, the Varsity mentor has not begun to pick his squad. Constant drill in passing, cutting for the basket, and effective guarding constitute the bulk of the early season practices...
...animated cartoon of U. S. farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses scraps of ham fat to a kitten...
...probably know, New York apartment houses are designed by architects who never read magazines and thus aren't interested in installing mail boxes of proper size; so magazines are dumped into a common basket or spread upon a lobby table...
...rich today, nor are they precisely penniless. Their "personal basket," Vaness Co., is still supposed to yield them $250,000 annually. (Alleghany is their "public basket.") During the past few years they have staved off disaster through a series of heroic financial efforts, most important of which were voluntary adjustments in publicly-owned issues of Van Sweringen Corp. and Alleghany that were about to default. The Morgan loan was obtained five years ago largely to pay off nearly $20,000,000 owing to the brokerage firm of Paine, Webber & Co. and to purchase Government securities to bolster the shrinking collateral...
...Monett, Mo., 200 members of the United Browning Families assembled for a basket supper, quartet singing, a speech by State Legislator Lewis Browning, and discussion of the erection of a Browning Memorial Building. Organized last year, U. B. F. draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo. Best known is Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head...