Word: wastebasketful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill White was cradled in the Gazette's wastebasket, while his father worked with his mother over its forms. When he was big enough to hit a front porch, young Bill White had carried the Gazette. He had penned its Emporia high-school notes. He had been the Gazette's reporter, copyreader, business manager, circulation manager, associate editor, finally publisher...
That overflowing wastebasket in Matthew S-32 is the result of a mice scare. The cleaning lady refused to go near the thing for a week after seeing a rodent leap out of it and leer at her one morning...
...divorced, told the judge that her husband had swiped her false teeth and used all the meat coupons for himself. She got the teeth as alimony. In Kansas City, Walter Solt, who had had trouble with the maid service at his hotel, was fined $1 for taking his jampacked wastebasket down to the lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's desk. In San Diego, OPA investigators found a landlord charging roomers $2.50 a week for the privilege of using the front door. In Manhattan, department stores offered a new preparation for sale-a liquid to take...
...steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...
...packing box in his room, flicking pieces of paper into the wastebasket in the middle of the bare floor. Then he heard a knock on the door. He got up slowly and opened it, but there was nobody there...