Word: basketing
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...Chicago, Bim Elbert, dog, was reported as being paid quarters and dimes for tidying the Elbert premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities...
Coolidge. Business over, the teachers "spent a glorious Fourth making patriotic pilgrimages to historic shrines." But not until they had jammed the Central High School Stadium and been addressed by President Coolidge, whom they presented with a huge basket of birthday flowers...
...music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time in procuring a bushel basket...
...become one of the most popular fashions for men, and the Straw Hat Manufacturers' Association has prepared an elaborate history of the head-wear dating from pictures of Juno on old Greek vases and coins of 350 A.D., wearing a "Stephanos", which is described as "an inverted peach basket". The first styles in America were frank limitations of the old felt derby of the vintage...
...comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet in diameter, spherical in cut but assuming an egg shaped form with the bigger end at the top; round the gas bag is the load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food, water, coffee, sterno. The balloonists are comfortable, though slightly cramped for long flights...