balaam basket or box

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Balaam \Ba"laam\, n. A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. --Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] [1913 Webster]

Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. --Blackw. Mag. [1913 Webster]

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