Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ephraim Brown was home, Chog's Cove soaking in through his pores. And here, before him was Susannah, with a small basket of apples on her arm, "a solid simple woman in an old dress and a soiled apron, a woman two thousand miles from a dark girl at Pamilco, a woman all infinity from Celestine" at New Orleans. "You could no more compare Celestine to her than you could a glass of absinthe to a good field." Her large red mouth was slightly open. He said, "It's me." She said, "Aiyes...
...morning he arrived at his duties as usual and laid down the basket of candles which he had brought to light the chapel. Upon returning he found that the basket and its contents has disappeared and it was necessary to wait until daylight to hold a perfunctory service. The incident so impressed the College officials that shortly after the Corporation voted that thereafter chapel services should be postponed until daybreak...
...week and Nov. 7, ten more States will definitely vote. So certain did Repeal appear that Montana's Canadian-born Governor Frank Henry Cooney decided voting would be a waste of time and money. Said he: "Montana won't need to vote. Repeal will be in the basket by Nov. 7 and we can save our $100,000 and use it to feed our needy people...
...Californian, who balances the team with cannonball serves, unplayable overhead shots at the end. He taught himself to play tennis on Los Angeles public courts in 1927, when Lott was already in the U. S. first ten. Then 16. a high-school football, baseball and basket ball player, he grew 97 inches in the next three years, won a match against John Hope Doeg...
...Sentences not only words but sentences and always sentences have been Gertrude Stein's life long passion." The only teacher she acknowledges is her poodle, Basket. "The rhythm of his water drinking made her recognize the difference between sentences and paragraphs, that para- graphs are emotional and that sentences...