Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher's high-strung poodles. Apple-cheeked Charles Bell Porter was no newsman but an esthete, a collector of rare stamps and Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant, and for 15 well-paid years his polished head and briefcase bulged with her undivulged secrets...
...Collection baskets are not an inspiring sight. The average basket contains a few bills, a dozen quarters, maybe a hundred dimes and several hundred nickels-a total of maybe $40 or $50 contributed by 500 or 700 people . . . Hence, the detestable practice which leads some priests to go around with the basket. They do it because they obtain more money. But they lose something more precious than money -the respect of the people...
...bargains, and for most buyers there is fascination in the sprawling confusion of the stalls. Gene Gauthier knew what he wanted for his vegetables before he got to market last week: 35? for a dozen ears of corn, a cent apiece for cucumbers, 25? for an 11-quart basket of tomatoes, 10? for a 5-lb. bag of carrots. Some farmers sprinkle their vegetables with water to make them look fresher, but Gene feels that makes them soggy and pulpy...
...seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...
...shoulder or shoulder chops are delicious, but no, you would rather pay from 20 to 30? a pound more for a leg or loin chops. You imagine bone weighs much more than it does . . . The fat that your children need for normal healthy growth is going in the tallow basket for 8? a pound and you are paying for it with higher prices...