Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's wife the Homesteaders gave a basket of home-grown radishes and onions. Said she: "I'll take them home. My husband adores onions...
...frontier farmhouse near Callander, Ont. as his five little daughters went into a third recordbreaking week of life, to the marvel of the medical profession throughout the world. Marie, the frailest, upon whom the others had rolled when they were all in the one butcher's basket, was the first one to be placed in an incubator all to herself. Five days later each of the other four had her private quarters and a better chance for life. Three trained nurses were...
...intellectual life of the University will be unable to make the trek to Cambridge. But there is one unfortunate aspect to this policy: the entire stress is being laid on concentrating small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough if anyone could devise an even reasonably satisfactory system of selection. But when a few men are chosen at intellectual random while other of almost equal merit are shut out entirely, the chances of mistakes in choice are overwhelmingly great...
...Wolf (Walt Disney). On her way to her grandmother's cottage, carrying a basket of cakes and wine, Little Red Riding Hood passes the Three Little Pigs' establishment. The two inferior pigs, squealing and cavorting as usual while their brother builds an addition to the house, advise Red Riding Hood to use a shortcut through the forest where the Big Bad Wolf spends his time. They accompany her along the shortcut, playing their gay flute and fiddle. When the Wolf , makes his appearance, imperfectly disguised as Goldilocks, the piglets behave as might be expected. They run home...
...over 40.* He got his first big-league job, with Boston, 22 years ago when the regular shortstop broke a leg. If he had played 140 games this season, Maranville would have passed the record of Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner who played in 2,785. Famed for his basket-catches of infield flies, his picayune size, his antics on the field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues in 1927, he stopped drinking, promptly came up again in 1928. He declined...