Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand afterwards admitted that the Chalet's bustling waiters placed before them fresh caught mountain trout, roast chicken, sausages, peas (served as a separate course in France) and a basket heaped with fruit. What they munched was washed down in good Swiss wine. What they said was later hinted at in an official communique...
...beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...
...actually believed that when they ate liverwurst, bologna, or a bit of scampf, they were partaking of pulverized canine cadavers. Some thirty years ago this Adolf Gobel, who has done more, perhaps, for the sausage business, than any other man of his era, went about Brooklyn with a wicker basket...
...basket contained sausages...
...fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow...