Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which no two agree--and concede the point; they should remember that the line dividing idiomatic and colloquial French is ever tenuous, ever changing; and finally they should bear in mind that the spectacle of hairsplitting grammarians is matched in absurdity only by that of hair-splitting theologians. Oran Corbett...
...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
...swimming, baseball; the Gold Cup race for speedboats, and, dear to the heart of Mr. Britten who was once an able boxer himself, the finals of the scouting force boxing matches. James Joseph Tunney, retired Marine, would referee and give to the heavyweight winner the statue of James J. Corbett which Mr. Britten won as U. S. amateur lightweight champion back in 1894. To Mr. Britten everything looked bright except the weather...
Enthusiastic about the Magic House (which will sell for less than $5,000) was well-known Modernist Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, co-architect of the Chicago World's Fair and of Manhattan's much- criticized Radio City (TIME, March 16). Said...
...critics had an immediate reason for hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...