Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin the Frenchman who bravely defied physical pain to do his duty...
Cliff Day had gaveled for order; a collection of $600 in nickels and dimes had been taken up in a tin wastepaper basket to pay for the hall; an Alabaman had made it clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore...
Last week in Evanston, Ill., a dark Semitic-looking man and his beauteous brown-haired wife hastened out of a little red-brick cottage behind a nurse carrying a basket. In the basket was a baby. The foursome climbed into a cab, were whisked to Chicago's County Court. There Al Jolson, famed publicizer of motherhood, and Wife Ruby Keeler, who for two years had wanted a child, formally adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back...
...five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money...
Huey Long's reaction was to sweep the Coughlin program into his own egg basket: "I think Father Coughlin has a damn good platform and I'm 100% for him. . .. What he says is right down my alley...