Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips curling up into an expression of chronic ill humor. (Woodrow Wilson once remarked: "Think what Glass would say if he ever used both sides of his mouth...
...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...
...orchestra, and proceeded to solo in a suite called Night Club. Johnny Green's music was as blatantly programatic as Grofé's. It described tables being set in a speakeasy still reeking with smoke from the night before. Revelers drifted in. Two lovers sat in a corner oblivious to the noise around them. Hot, reeling couples packed the dance floor "not much bigger than a dime." Corks popped in a drunken finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with...
...many another, that it was time for retrenchment. From the State Legislature the University received $12,000,000 biennially. Although President Chase added a College of Fine & Applied Arts and a School of Physical Education, it was at no extra cost to the budget. He cut many a fiscal corner and last week the University had a cosy $2,500,000 to spare, more than half of which is car-marked for Illinois' medical school buildings in Chicago...
...odor with large sections of the U. S., the New York Stock Exchange has been cleaning house for more than a year. Last week it swept out a particularly grimy corner. Six members were suspended, for periods ranging from one month to three years, for tipping Exchange employes. All the suspendees were bond traders, members of the foreign bond "crowd" located on the floor of the Exchange but apart from the main body of stock brokers...