Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take root and grow for the next moon...
...amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...
Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave...
...bachelorhood, was seated at dinner next to Spinster Edith Berryman (pen name: Mary Ann Jones), with whom for two years he has carried on a feud about a tax on bachelors, suggested by Spinster Berryman. A bridal bouquet was awarded to Miss Berryman (laughter and applause), a sewing basket to Bachelor Hines...
...Raklios eating houses that dotted the Loop and nearby business districts in the early '30s. Almost as familiar was the legend of their bush-browed proprietor John Raklios. He had hit the Loop in 1901, fresh from Greece with $10 in his pocket, had parlayed a basket of fruit into a sidewalk fruit stand, then switched his bet to popular-priced restaurants. In 1928, his top year, his chain did a gross business of $3,600,000, and talkative John Raklios, with a classic "stromberry" accent, counted himself a millionaire, with a $65,000 mansion on Sheridan Road...