Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without chairs, beds, or tables, a woman lay rolled up in some quilts trying to sleep. On the floor before an open fire lay two babies, neither a year old, sucking the dry teats of a mongrel bitch. A young girl, somewhere between fifteen and twenty, squatted on the corner of the hearth trying to keep warm...
Later, when the full glory of the period of normalcy, our Augustan age, had passed, a picturesque afterglow remained. Around every corner was a breadline, now replaced, in the name of progress, with the far less romantic E.R.A. bureau. In corresponding proximity was the return of prosperity, in the phrases of a prominent and cherubic public figure of the day. All this, of course, is merely an old wives' tale to most, but for a few the ghosts who have reawakened memories of glory are living figures, of dignity as well as of pathos...
...busy Broadway corner, one Walter King was picked up by a Manhattan detective who accused him vaguely of swindling "a professor who wrote a lot of books." The professor was Duke University's famed psychologist William McDougall.† Last time Professor McDougall saw King was one autumn day in 1933. That day he gave King and a companion $10,550 in the morning, $10,000 more in the afternoon, for "royalty rights'' to oil fields in Iowa...
...finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth would win its own carnival, one of the four men skiing the third leg of the 12-mi. relay race, last event on the program, cut a corner and got his team disqualified. That gave New Hampshire University, with 511 points to McGill's 490, first place, with Dartmouth third...
...London it is possible to speculate in dried flies. And on at least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...