Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is yet no law to prevent race pollution, we have judges who send men to jail for defiling the proud German race! . . . The priests will marry even a Negro and a German woman, providing they are both Catholics, but after nine months what do we have in the basket? A child with every stigma of darky blood. ... In America almost every week a Negro is lynched for assaulting a white woman. We in Germany say it serves him right! . . . But in Germany has a single Jew been shot...
...fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize, when the bee was over, was a box containing 16 balls of yarn...
...revue the great Chardon was producing. Thereafter good fortune came her way in breath-taking abundance. When she accidentally collided with a handsome young South American in the street, he turned out to be a dashing Argentine millionaire-"although taller than they usually are." When she needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty little widow from California, "instantly answered her prayer? Was this grocer's clerk an angel in disguise...
...kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes." O'Brien (asked whether he had destroyed all his papers on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill) : "Yes, I set them aside." "Where?" "In the waste basket, Mr. Beach told me we had no further use for the papers." Beach (admitting that he had telephoned his underlings in 26 states, giving orders to destroy copies of telegrams to Congress on which A. G. E. had spent $100,000): "I don't know from which...
...Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, one midnight a policeman spied Anthony Sclafani in shorts and bare legs feeding grapefruit to the yaks. In court Sclafani produced a basket of green vegetables, told the magistrate, "See. All fresh vegetables. The yaks love grapefruit...