Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded dressing room. Unlike most stars of importance. Mr. Vallee wore no make up, his manner was simple and direct and he still wore on his yest a fraternity pin, reminiscent of his college days at Maine and Yale. In one corner of the room was a large basket of flowers from the Kiwanis Club of his home town which he later acknowledged with his characteristic unassuming naivete during his Act. Ris whole attitude was distinctly not theatrical...
...their 200 weary pages, the League's commissioners added a few spicy details, stories of rapes, torturings, floggings, soldiers "who amused themselves by collecting one by one the hairs of the chief's long mustache." Liberian slavers have two favorite tortures, the commission reported, known respectively as "Getting the Basket" and "Putting in the Kitchen." In the first a large round basket is filled with earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks. In the second...
...game, which was attended by more than 2000 spectators, was by far the most exciting yet played in the new building, since the opposition threatened the Crimson basket until the very end by fast passing and offense work which all but scored...
...beginning of the second half the navigators returned with a rush which swept the Crimson men off their feet, and clustered them around their own basket, working desperately to stave off the bombardment to which it was subjected. The University hoopsters called a succession of times-out, finally succeeding in working up a tardy resentment which returned the Cadets to their own territory. Loose and fast playing was the order of the day, the audience appreciating vociferously. With a heavy lead, and time, to fight against, the Crimson men took the situation in hand, and caged every shot...
...here I rest upon Your desk for a short space; until-the waste basket and the fire. Then once again I'll go-free smoke before free wind-to touch again the hills of Maryland...