Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...
...Taken from the line "I am tired ... of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs," in William Faulkner's Light in August...
...playwright after another has taken a whack at writing a play about Joan of Arc but the play by Bernard Shaw currently being produced at the Plymouth is the pick of the basket. Perhaps its appeal lies in that it avoids being a tearjerker, the fault of several Joan plays, and instead works on the emotions in an honest...
...night 26 years ago, an unknown hand knocked three times at the door of a foundling home in Bilbao. The sister on duty waited the regulation three minutes to give the nocturnal caller time to retreat into the darkness, then she opened the door. In a wicker basket outside, a baby girl lay sleeping. "Take good care of my baby," said an unsigned note pinned to the basket. "Her name is Maria del Rosario. God protect...
...substitute sank a basket, making the final score 82 to 77. Bradley lost by less than seven points, and consequently the players were given only $75 each...