Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is massive Widener Library, third largest in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in the World War. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of Colonel Charles Apted, chief of the University's G-Men, and of the University bill-collectors...
...British bombing attack on the German base-island of Sylt off Denmark's southwest corner. Obvious object: to destroy the extensive anti-aircraft establishment there, pave the way for other raids on the naval bases. No results were announced but this week German civilians were evacuated...
Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...
...taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk up to me and say, 'We haven't got no syrup,' and even after nine years that he has gone on these trips with us, he will look around for the corner grocery store where there is no store in 20 miles of there. . . . Yes, sir, it is an unusual camping experience." Last week, having given all these facts, and many another, considerable attention, the ICC's examiner thought it best that Mr. Rose didn't operate his caravan...
Since 1878 the Salvation Army has been practicing street-corner soul-saving. On the theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man's soul when his feet are cold and his stomach empty, it adds soup and soap to the salvation. Thanks also to Founder Booth, the Army's General long occupied the most autocratic throne of charity on earth, armed with a set of rules which gave him dictatorial powers, even to naming his successor. Son Bramwell was so named when General William Booth died...