Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...
...Egyptians. When these have been hacked, speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left all alone. He stabs himself, lives long enough to quote to Cleopatra Shakespeare's "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" Cleopatra puts on her best clothes and calls for a basket, out of which she takes...
...wicker basket aboard a hearse the body of John Dillinger rode home last week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...
...which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer out of a saxophone player who couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket...
...Office to order Scotland Yard to request by radio that police throughout the United Kingdom search all parcels which had remained more than two weeks in station check rooms. No sooner had this search begun than the remains of a stillborn baby were found at Brighton in a wicker basket which had been checked on Feb. 24. "You see it was a wicker fish basket," explained the checkroom attendant. "That was why we didn't think there was anything strange." As Sir Bernard Spilsbury's next discovery it was revealed that the torso was that of a woman...