"I'll tank you to notice," Oney said politely, as he carried a basket of oranges into the kitchen, "that there are a couple dozen extry".
By Theodore Pratt The New Yorker, June 22 , 1935P. 56 "I'll tank you to notice," Oney said politely, as he carried a basket of oranges into the kitchen, "that there are a couple dozen extry".
Around the same time, the 1888 Van Gogh depiction of a basket of oranges went to California direct marketing tycoon Greg Renker and his wife Stacey in a private sale.
To prove it, wire baskets full of oranges hang overhead.
— Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee "Paul Ryan isn't just comparing apples to oranges; he's comparing a single apple to a basket full of oranges".
BILL T. JONES: In the Jones household in the late '50s and early '60s, the delivery of a bush-el basket of navel oranges, pecans and some-times grapefruit defined the Christmas holiday.
The interior walls were hung with rich tapestries from Arras in France, while an inventory taken in 1639 recorded a large number of silver and gilt plate kept in the Great Tower, including a basket for the consumption of oranges and lemons, then luxury items in Wales.
When police had taken her to the country house hours after the body was found, she had rushed towards a room that contained a wastepaper basket with snippets of orange baler twine inside.
