Word: basketeers
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...