Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the arrival of winter, the problem of street-corner begging reappears, owing to the prolongation of the depression. While it is true that many of the applicants are eminently worthy of aid, the willy-nilly giving of dimes by college students offers no substantial solution of the problem of relief and only encourages an already intolerable situation...
Professor Hooten said that ten years ago a man sent his son to college with the instructions to get a good foundation in business so he could make himself a millionaire. About that time prosperity was in full bloom, but since it has backed around the corner, ideas have changed, and today, Professor Hooton thinks, more and more sons are being urged to study Philosophy, History, and the classics. The idea seems to be that a full brain is a more dependable thing than a full pocketbook...
...children's truck passed Boss Bruno's house two shots pinged over the crowd. Then machine-gun bullets volleyed from three sides of Bruno's Corner into the jampacked ranks of the marchers. In a minute it was over. By the ruddy light of torches a priest was giving final absolution, his voice rising and falling through the shrieks of women and children. It began to rain...
Five marchers were killed, 13 wounded. Next day Kelayres polled 24 Republican, 662 Democratic votes. Services for three of the dead were held in the bullet-scarred Church of the Immaculate Conception (see cut) at the same corner where they were killed. Twenty miles away Boss Bruno & relatives were in jail, charged with murder...
GALLYBIRD - Sheila Kaye-Smith - Harper ($2.50). Tale of 17th Century England, complete with black magic; sequel to The End of the House of Alard and Superstition Corner...