Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third ring: Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, with his ice-cold voice and $50,000. Other corner: the Associated Farmers of California...
...been Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries. For years most U. S. art fanciers who were creating new collections, and sometimes their lawyers and agents who were dispersing old collections, have been seen in the Galleries' staid brick building on Madison Avenue at the southeast corner of Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street...
...Owner Bishop since 1923) sell the books. The man they found was Mitchell Kennerley again. Hiram Parke resigned. So did Vice President Otto Bernet. With them departed most of the American Art Association's experts, auctioneers, appraisers, to found the new Parke-Bernet Galleries around the corner, leaving Mitchell Kennerley as president with what remained of his old Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime...
...question ever came up, someone usually said it was one of famed U. S. Songwriter Stephen Foster's (Swanee River, Oh! Susanna! etc.). Fame never caught up with black Songwriter Bland, but death did: in 1911 he was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in a corner of Merion, Pa.'s scrubby little Negro cemetery...
...were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin', there'll be a city-and wimmin 'n' homes 'n' streets 'n' churches...