Word: wastebasketed
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...windy wit have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes for with his swordcane. But tourists are small fry. His real enemy is 83-year-old Colonel Anthony Steele...
High overhead all the disturbance, the big bass bell seems to fidget uneasily. Not yet. No. No one is beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...
Featured in the ebullient swingfest, which was furnished mostly by trumpets and clarinets, were an inspired drummer who performed on a wastebasket and a stick, and William G. Hewitt '38, who played the zither. The program included "Wintergreen", "Organ Grinder's Swing" and several Harvard songs, and ended with a triumphant snake-dance...
...fireproof wood (TIME, Jan. 20) and the copper-tube detector which has been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube, move a small diaphragm, close an electrical circuit, flash an alarm to the central fire station...
...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...