Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans who are to create the spark of life in which he is to be re-incarnated...
...That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
...believe that you can have a busted farmer and a prosperous city man at the same time.... There's something wrong when 1,000 banks out here in this bread basket of the nation 'go busted' in one year. I am not saying what form of farm relief the farmer should have, but he must have something...
...would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...
...reports of fierce head winds. She must have met heavy fog. But no reports of two men in a monoplane who had set out across the sea or of the Princess behind them down the tiny corridor from the cockpit, sitting surrounded by red hat boxes and a little basket in a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the cabin floor...