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Word: basketwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark by Tiger King & friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man of Aran | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Perfectly composed, the troop of assassins sat in court, each with his head completely covered by a basketwork hood, as is the Japanese rule when capital crime is involved. Alert and proud of his patriotism, Sub-Lieutenant Seishi Koga rose to testify: "We thought that a war with America was needed to rehabilitate the Japanese national spirit. We planned to blow up Premier Inukai and Mr. Chaplin together. It was only when some of us were arrested and we had to hurry our preparations to kill Premier Inukai that we gave up our plan to kill the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chaplin & Assassins | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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