Word: wastebasket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cummings have intelligently fitted the material to her talents. As Marie Claudel, an undergraduate in a European seminary, she loves Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall), the head of the school. When a romantic, unsigned letter in her handwriting, addressed "My One and Only Love . . ." is fished out of a classroom wastebasket by an invidious and sex-starved school mistress (Constance Collier), the child is suspected of an outside liaison, forced to reveal the real object of her affections. Ultimately she prevails against the gentle fellowship which has for years united Stephen to his fellow teacher (Ruth Chatterton...
...thanks to TIME for placing provocative Current Affairs Test on last six pages. It makes it so easy to rip out and consign to the nearest wastebasket without disturbing balance of magazine...
...Class B shares. Next day Manhattan newspapers noted briefly that a readjustment plan proposed last April for Kreuger & Toll debentures had been accepted by the U. S. holders. These two occurrences meant that at last thousands of investors could be sure of realizing something on the colossal wastebasket of international paper spilled by Ivar Kreuger when he shot himself in Paris in March 1932. With the $2,500,000 contribution which Swedish Match will be able to make from the proceeds of its new issue, Kreuger & Toll will have amassed about $20,000,000 in assets for holders...
...copy of an unpublished poem by Rudyard Kipling which was rejected by an English magazine at the height of his career, and the author's original manuscript of the famous poem "Recessional," rescued from his wastebasket, are included in a memorial exhibition of Kipling's works now on display in the Widener Memorial Room and the Treasure Room of the Harvard University Library...
Kipling's handwritten copy of "Recessional" composed in 1897, reveals that the author had originally intended entitling the poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting the Kiplings in 1897 at the time Kipling was writing "Recessional" and when he threw a draft of the poem into the wastebasket, she recovered the page, and the author allowed her to keep...