Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action unfolds before the fantastic beauty of Norman Bel Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey...
...Jersey, a greyish bubble swaying over Lakehurst broke its anchor (a ground winch), sailed up and away toward the Atlantic. Three specks?an auto, an airplane, a blimp?gave chase. A figure in the passenger basket manipulated valves, lowered the bubble so that its dangling cable trailed across the landscape. Within four miles of the sea, the cable finally tangled itself in a tree. Rescuers pulled down Lieut. Frank J. Uhlig, U. S. Marines, deflated his kite balloon, took both home uninjured...
...Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...
Five letter-men remain: J. N. Rarbee Jr. '28, W. Van A. Coombs '27, Kenneth Dorn '27, J. D. Leekley '27, and Captain J. S. Malick '27. Born and Leekley are forwards, while the other three guard the basket...
...unusual as that I have described, but even in the daily routine there is a fascination which keeps one going through leg-weary days when stories just will not break, through disheartening evenings when one sees the products of a day's endeavors tossed in the waste basket with perhaps a caustic word from the assistant managing editor. There is the thought of other days when one will stumble on a big bit of news ahead of his fellows, ahead perhaps of the Boston papers, when his story will lead the paper with a double column headline and his rivals...