Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Lincoln available for relief work. Braggiotti pitched the 3-3 tie with Navy, while Lincoln's twirling accounted for two of the southern victories. The infield will consist of Tom Bilodeau at first base, Bill Hayes at second, Craig Woodruff at shortstop, and John Adzigian in the hot corner. Ben Prouty is to start at right field, Braman Gibbs at center, and Frank Owen in right field. Captain Dick Maguire will take his customary place behind...
Marriage into Toscanini's family seems to have helped Horowitz to a more profound approach to music. But the way was hard. When he first met the great conductor he was so awed that he hunched in a corner all evening and was scolded by his friends for sulking. He married the Maestro's daughter Wanda in 1933. Next year Pianist Horowitz will remain in Europe for a tour that is already solidly booked...
...Congressional situation keep him from going fishing off Florida. Last week he had another fishing appointment aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story of his decline until the Press reported no hope remained...
Soon he is settled in a corner and peering out into the boery cacophony that surrounds him. Smoke drifts and hangs. Hectored barmaids bustle wearily to help Harvard's demi-monde with its forgetting. High school heroes and prep school might-have-beens assure each other of what they might be doing now. Beacon Hill-climbers rub their barked shins unseen and unmolested. Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth...
With beds crowded into every corner, with new patients arriving even before the old ones had been properly sterilized for their return to the outside world, the work was endless. Yet no errand was too trivial for their attention, and in spite of endless difficulties due to overcrowding, they managed to make their restless patients comfortable and cheerful...