Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as the newspapers came out, the populace learned that Mr. Hoover had called their country "the world's bread basket." The phrase sounded new and original in Buenos Aires and it "took" tremendously. There were headlines about it, as well as about the various newborn babies who were to be christened "Herbert" or "Hoover," and leading editorials complaining politely about the exclusive U.S. tariff...
...Latin, fiscus-money basket...
Several winners confessed that they had hired agents buy bales of the newspapers in which competition coupons appeared, fill out the coupons in hundreds of combinations, and mail them in by the basket-full...
...many Britons are now keyed to the fiercest pitch of patriotism in defense of "All British Goods" that last week a wretched London vegetable woman, one Maud ("Maudie") Dallas, was actually hauled into court for displaying over a basket of Dutch tomatoes the sign...
...little boys walked on either side, one bearing a basket of bread, the other a basket of coal. At each home in the little street, first on one side, next on the other, front doors opened at the click of the silver key. Then Lady Byng flung into the hallway of each house; first a loaf of fine white bread and next a large and sooty piece of coal...