Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
...remember it all as if it happened yesterday," said Papa Semiz. "It was there in that corner, just against the window, that Gavrilo Princip sat just 20 years ago while he waited for my clock to strike the hour...
...alone over his coffee. The streets were crowded outside. Cheers told us of the coming of Franz Ferdinand. Princip got up calmly and paid his bill and walked out. Fifteen minutes later people rushed in and told me that Princip had stood calmly against the barber shop on the corner and fired two shots...
Known were the names of all the subjects but of only one of the artists, who signed himself T. S. Thomas Smith was a mariner, poet and painter. The last two accomplishments he exhibited in what is supposed to be his self-portrait. Under a skull in the corner he penned...
...apple tree. The result was a burn which left a large scar on his left leg. Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham, he has perfected a technique: to stay close behind until the last 200 yd. The last thing he did in every afternoon of practice this spring was to run a fast...