Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, as to the tale, dear to preachers' hearts, that Tischendorf rescued the precious vellum leaves from a waste basket, as they were being used to kindle a fire. . . . Vellum is a form of leather, you know; and can you imagine any one's kindling a fire with leather? And did you never smell burning shoes...
...camp-meeting ground is now a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat...
...frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church. In return the Tsar gave the monastery $3,500, the abbot and other dignitaries decorations. Last week this trash basket manuscript, now the famed Codex Sinaiticus, was bought by the British Museum for $511,250 (?100,000) from the Soviet Government. Under secrecy and heavy guard, it was moved from Moscow to London...
...center and in him, Harvard's mentor places his greatest hope. Boys is a reliable man on both the offense and defense, and is extremely accurate in his hoop shots. Dan Comfort, who has recently been shifted from forward, will assist Captain Joe Ferriter in guarding the Crimson basket. Gene Merry, a returning letterman, and Jim Grady, a sophomore, will lead the attack in the forward posts...
...colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during inflation, you might see creditors fleeing madly from debtors who were chasing them to pay them with bushel-basket fuels of dirty paper."... Most famous of all, perhaps, is his address, immediately consequent upon the taking of the Philippines. The lecture was entitled, "The Conquest of the United States by Spain...