Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of his own. Samuel Insull had been smuggled out of the hotel in a bonnet and shawl, disguised as a charwoman. Samuel Insull had been spirited out of the country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally from the harbor master of Piraeus, Athens' port seven miles away, came a report that a rusty foul-smelling little tramp steamer known as the Maiotis had cleared for parts unknown with Samuel Insull as its only passenger. Further...
...deliverance. Last week brought the 14th day of Adar (March 1) in the Jewish year 5694. Many a Jew all over the world made merry. Even in Germany they were allowed to attend special Purim plays, advertise the feast in street cars. In Manhattan Mayor LaGuardia was given a basket of Purim figs, dates and wines sent by German refugees in Palestine. A message from President Roosevelt to the Jews was read by Congressman Sol Bloom on a nationwide broadcast...
...front. Daring, fast, both fine sprinters, Brocardo and Guimbretiere went into the last hour of continuous sprinting three full laps ahead. Debaets and Thomas made up one lap but that was the best that they could hope to do. First to ride around the track with the basket of flowers that goes to the winners (beside a cash prize of $5.000) were Brocardo and Guimbretiere. Loudest cheers from a heavily...
...into a single reception room, have the same kind of paneling, fireplaces and desks. Last week, when Mr. Brown was elected president of First National and Mr. Oleson was elected board chairman, most people sent duplicate bouquets. One who did not was Charles Gates Dawes. He sent a large basket of red roses. They were placed on a filing cabinet halfway between the two offices...
...Virgil. That task he has performed with examplary industry; each legend is tracked down to its written origin, and for the commoner of them he has provided a wealth of chronological tables and documentation. The most tenacious of the legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head...