Word: corkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Here's a corker, he said, producing a clipping headed "Cop Clubs and Bombs Rout Harvard Rioters." In response to the mysterious disappearance of the Memorial Hall bell clapper, 2000 students, mostly freshmen, had broken into Radcliffe dormitory and ran through the halls screaming "We want out bell clapper and we want beer...
First period--Corker (Preston), 0:16; Farrell (Crocker), 1:50; J. Riley (Sanders), 12:08; Mather (Cunliffe), 14:45; Warburton (Mather, Thayer), 19:53. Penalties--Plliam, W. Riley. Ayres, 2; Gebelein, Farrell, Tilghman...
...Meeting was held. Rents held the center of interest, and fact finding committees were set up to look into the whys and wherefores of rents, transportation. FPHA projects, and the organization of recreation. Mr. Taft, who spent the evening trying to find suitable answers, was optimistic. "It was a corker," he said...
...meeting was a "corker," it didn't solve the riddle of the rents...
Last week the remains of Bvron Keating-piles of news clips-were decently interred in Keating's "office," the middle drawer of Hill's desk. Hill and Eckels have only one regret: "We had a corker planned. We were going to phony up a foundation-garment account for Byron Keating. We were going to have the phony company pick a Miss Uplift from clerks behind brassiere counters...