Word: wastebasketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
...increasing, decided that a Stimson speech might complicate future negotiations. When the Secretary returned with a draft of his address for White House approval, the President ordered him to pocket it, cancel the broadcast. Sheepishly Statesman Stimson told newsmen that he had decided to "sleep on it." Into the wastebasket went bales of the never-to-be-delivered Stimson speech just off the State Department mimeograph...
...morning five years ago Mary Garden received in her sheaf of mail a note from a fledgling composer asking if he might play her some of his music. Such . notes usually go into Mary Garden's wastebasket. But this one appealed to her. With characteristic terseness she wrote the young man to come next day. The result of that audience was an opera called Camille, written by the young man after the story of Alexandre Dumas fils (as is Verdi's Traviata). The premiere was scheduled for this week at Samuel Insull's year-old Chicago Opera...
...book-littered bachelor quarters he piles the day's mail, unopened, on a great oak table. Over this a newspaper is spread on which the following day's mail goes. This unique filing system usually collapses after a few days; the mail is thrown in the wastebasket by a despairing housekeeper...