Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled a dagger from the sleeve of her cotton gown and spoke quietly. She said that if she were not given her husband's head she would add to his corpse two dead bodies, hers and the officer's. The Japanese officer took the head from a basket and gave...
Durable Spencer Tracy, a cinemactor who can really act, plays Dr. Jekyll and Friend Hyde for more than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...Rome Longstreet got some good notes on the Sistine frescos, and a Roman prince called him "you ol' sonampipch" and "you ol' basket." A side trip alone, to Rumania, brings some of the best writing in the book. He liked Turkey very much, thinks it is "the land of the future, if it can keep out of the next...
...Baron's bedside swarmed big shots from Prince Konoye down. Emperor Hirohito sent a basket of fruit. In Japanese court etiquette this meant that the Son of Heaven held hope for his recovery. Had the gift been imperial wine, it would have implied that the Baron's sukiyaki was considered cooked. The Baron took the hint: at week's end he was reported to be rallying strongly...
Chief reason for this misfortune was a head-on collision between an SEC ruling and a New York State law. SEC, presumably to assure the highest price on each type of security, had ruled against "basket bids," insisted that bonds and stocks must be bid for concurrently but separately. New York State law says that a utility cannot sell capital stock for less than par. And the company's 5% rate on the new preferred was so low in relation to similar issues now on the market (Consolidated Edison's 5% preferred was selling just below par) that...