Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...
...London on Christmas morning, 1865, tall, hirsute William Booth came down to breakfast with a straw-lined basket in his hands. "Here," he said to his sons & daughters, "is God's Christmas gift...
...game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded, ending the game. Hundreds of fans swarmed on to the floor, to find out what had happened. The answer was simple: Kentucky had won the game...
Apparently, he would also continue to be folksy. At San Bernardino, someone had handed him a basket of eggs. "At least they didn't throw them at me," he cracked. A man in the crowd yelled: "What about throwing them at Taft?" The President replied: "Oh, I wouldn't throw fresh eggs at Taft." At Barstow, past midnight, he popped out on the platform in pajamas and blue bathrobe. When a woman shouted that he sounded as if he had a cold, Harry Truman answered, "That's because I ride around in the wind with my mouth...
...Sunday, the President observed Mother's Day by sending a basket of red roses and snapdragons from the White House gardens to Washington's First Baptist Church, where they were placed on the pulpit in memory of his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, who died last year...