Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, at the outbreak of the War, women sat about wondering loudly what they could do to help U. S. refugees. Mrs. Hoover tossed her purse with 70 pounds into a basket and said: "Let's begin with that. Now let's go to the station and meet those Americans and help them...
...When I drive on a country road in this county farmers or their wives call to me: 'Come in and get some cider, a basket of grapes, some sweet corn for dinner.' The women of the town and county keep the print shop fragrant with flowers. I have a place in this community...
Gentlemen, we realize that a man in public life must submit to a certain amount of license, slander, and calumny, but I am sure that you must now realize that the waste basket is certainly not too severe a fate even for TIME in this case. What would you do about...
Smoot's Waste Basket...
TIME arrived as usual and reposed on my desk while its subscriber breakfasted. Returning. TIME had disappeared. Four or five hours later, after searching high and low, found TIME in Senator Smoot's private waste basket...