Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief rakers and re-hashers was a South Side apartment house builder and real estate reformer named John Joseph Mangan. He urged householders not to pay their taxes until the city government was purged. Cried he: "Kelly goes around with a prayer book in one hand, an empty bushel basket in the other." Mr. Mangan put out a tiny blue pamphlet called "Sanitary Kelly." Excerpts: "They call the new Mayor 'Sanitary Kelly' because he's so pure, clean and wholesome. He goes to church on Sunday. . . . BUT he was chief engineer of the infamous...
First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death, lightening the basket enough to save her life...
...scheme when the Civil War broke out. (He organized and commanded a two-balloon air force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High above the city...
...Anything that is on the floor is food for the basket; be sure, however, that you don't remove any rugs...