Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect it to be radical? Should trade unions give up the very certain fruits of a semi-monopoly for the shadowy benefits of a collectivistic chimera? In America population has not begun to strip the overflowing bread-basket; elsewhere laborers in millions are deprived of all but the barest minimum, as the limit of population has been reached or even overstepped. In America competition is strong, but it is competition for the best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike...
...total absence of any temperate party which looks to the ending of current abuses by political means and to the gradual modification of present institutions by pearceful methods. Political interest in Japan, excluding a majority of the workers who are not yet conscious of anything beyond the daily rice-basket, is divided between the rich, hereditary nobles, concentrating political and economic power in their hands, and the no less bitter Socialists who wish to destroy that power...
...theatrical production. For the plan of Grounds for Divorce is thin, almost out at the elbows, while the Little Angel is nourished with sustaining spice of satire. But Grounds for Divorce has Ina Claire and it is Ina Claire that makes it the pick of the Vajda basket...
...Chicago, Bim Elbert, dog, was reported as being paid quarters and dimes for tidying the Elbert premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities...
Coolidge. Business over, the teachers "spent a glorious Fourth making patriotic pilgrimages to historic shrines." But not until they had jammed the Central High School Stadium and been addressed by President Coolidge, whom they presented with a huge basket of birthday flowers...