Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweep he swore in the whole House membership at once. Other Democratic elections: Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois, Majority Leader; South Trimble of Kentucky, House Clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, Sergeant-at-Arms. Rules revision was temporarily postponed as some 5,000 legislative proposals were plopped into the bill basket...
...pretty pass, indeed, when the Official Campus Daily must suffer these degradations. We used to think that we were mighty scribes wielding a potent force in our community. But we're not. We're just a common depository for things nobody else wants. We're just a waste-basket in the great scheme of things. --Daily Princetonian...
...leaning on a basket into which potatoes are being gathered, and I find it difficult to keep the tears out of my eyes on account of my frost-bitten hands. Somebody who is the overseer of us all comes and gives me a slap on my frostbitten...
...Japan and headed by Chinese General Yuan Chin-kai last week proclaimed "severance of relations" between the three Manchurian provinces and the rest of China. Lest Japan set up the ex-Emperor of China as a puppet ruler of Manchuria, a Chinese patriot sent "Emperor" Henry Pu Yi a basket of fruit containing a bomb. Henry took the basket, thanked his Heavenly Ancestors for their protection when the bomb did not explode...
...skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed "The National Old Age Pension Bureau," he had made $50,000 more. As old age came upon Mr. Woodward he looked back upon a varied and profitable career, estimated that he had made $4,000,000 in operations...