Word: wastebasketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a well-bred wife and four children to support. Marx's only certain income was the two or four pounds a week he received as foreign correspondent to the Tribune. But Dana paid only for what he published, threw many of Marx's contributions in the wastebasket, printed others as editorials for which he did not pay. Although he contributed to the Tribune for eleven years, no complete collection of Marx's U. S. writing has been made...
...curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz got a $25 desk pad, and a $25 wastebasket. And presently Mr. Wilson, although no member of the Bar, was allowed by a friendly judge personally to argue a big traction suit in which he was opposed by some of Philadelphia's best corporation lawyers...
Once in the press of business Mr. Roosevelt knocked over his wastebasket, thought nothing of it. Two minutes before he was scheduled to press a telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's office to see whether everything was in order. It was not. The wastebasket had broken the telegraph wire. Hastily "Doc" Smithers crawled under the desk, held the broken ends of the wires together while the President, grinning, pressed...
...feelings are very much hurt. From now on until our subscription runs out, I shall put TIME in the wastebasket as soon as it comes, and I will tear it, too, so the janitor won't get any pleasure from...
...more enlightened biddies in Holworthy Hall catches up on her reading by picking last evening's newspapers out of the wastebasket each morning and perusing the more enticing headlines by whatever light is apt to penetrate that dingy grotto. The morning after the peace demonstration William Randolph Hearst succeeded in rousing her to a high pitch of excitement with accounts of subversive, un-American, and Marxist activities in our institutions of learning. Puzzled and alarmed she buttonholed a Holworthyite on his way to class with the bland question, "Mr. Burlingthwarp, what's a Commamist?" Disentangling politic 1 philosophies with...