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Word: basketeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This confirms the estimate of feeble and inaccurate" in describing your dramatic assistant or whoever compiles this misleading column, and I can only say that I shall throw TIME in the waste basket hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: No Sportsman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

When the Italian Premier saw that half the journalists were missing from his "interview" he cried: "Ha! There is a demonstration? I hope they send in a petition. I have a big waste basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cold Welcome | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Withdraw this theory and every department of physical research would fall back into heaps of hopelessly dislocated facts, with no more order or reason or philosophical coherence than exists in a basket of marbles, or in the juxtaposition of the multitudinous sands of the seashore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MATHER OUTLINES ARGUMENTS TO PROVE WORTH OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY | 10/13/1925 | See Source »

...Japanese, fireflies are the souls of departed lovers lighting the paths of living swains. Whereas in Occidental climes a robust suitor will kiss a flower and toss it to his sweetheart with truculent self-possession, a Japanese lover reverently presents a firefly encased in a small wicker basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Love Lights | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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