Word: wastebaskets
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Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...virtual embargo was clamped on liquor imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed rigid Federal control on the whole liquor business until Congress could tackle the subject. Provisions...
...natty, for ties that never quite went with his vivid shirts, for preferring burned beefsteak to the Italian delicacies that the other Prix de Rome students were learning to fancy, for sitting down methodically eight hours a day to write music which might or might not go into the wastebasket...
Outside of Philadelphia, the Chicago Tribune, alert to any & all anti-Red propaganda, printed the letter in full in its "Voice of the People" column, followed next day with an editorial of commendation. Other editors divided about equally in consigning the letter to wastebasket or to type...
...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...