Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Masons, plasterers and glaziers clambered around wooden scaffolding busily repairing gaping holes in Vienna's great municipal apartment houses. Street-corner telephone booths, kiosks and blank walls suddenly blossomed with green and white posters of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. From Budapest arrived sleek bespectacled Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had been discussing a possible Italian-Austro-Hungarian trade alliance with the Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly...
...dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose late husband had acquired it during the campaign. The South African High Commissioner arranged for the purchase...
...glad to see that they had not lost, however grim, their sense of humor. While that cabinet position assumed somewhat of an honorary nature with its last Republican incumbent, it has always been a vital cog in the administration, especially today with war a good deal closer around the corner than prosperity. It has also been one of the few secretaryships about which there have risen no wraiths of corruption. Let us examine genial Mr. Curley's qualifications...
...order to offset the shrinking in the amount of outside work available to undergraduates since prosperity began Hoovering around a hypothetical corner, the Temporary Student Employment Plan was instituted. That it has been generally successful in alleviating the depression for students is hardly to be questioned; and it may be accepted as equally axiomatic that the Plan should be continued. The question is where is the money to do this coming from; and neither God nor Mr. Conant seem to know...
...corner of Europe was a little country whose government did not change and whose King did not drift off to exile. In 1905 he had taken an oath "to maintain the national independence and the integrity of territory," a simple thing it seemed, to promise, since the nations of Europe had all vowed to preserve forever Belgian independence and territorial integrity. But nine years later a madman in a crooked street fired a shot which found its mark. The Chancellor of Imperial Germany, a gentle, weak, and honest man, explained to the Reichstag that the nation had her back...