Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager S. J. Ballinger of Dunhill's Manhattan store reluctantly nodded to a clerk. The clerk hopped out to the teeming corner of 5th Avenue & 43rd Street to summon the busy traffic officer. The officer set off smartly down West 43rd Street...
...champion of women. In every dispute I've been in their 'corner.' . . . I'm a home man and a well-trained husband and have always been for anything women wanted...
...authorship of "The Editor's Easy Chair" department in Harper's. He goes to Life's office punctually once a week to deliver his editorials, spends much of his time in his Manhattan house which is specially wired for him to plug in, in almost any corner, a device to aid his hearing...
...airplanes. Britain has the concession; Britain's Cabinet (the only ones in the know) feel even guiltier because of the further fact that the same stuff can -be made up into the world's most destructive atomic bomb. At the centre of the ensuing pussy-wants-a-corner is Walter Bullinger, Britain's Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Born a little Liberal, torn between his guilty secret, the bad guesses of foreign diplomats, the bloodthirsty ambitions of Sir Charles Pantry, Secretary for Air, poor Walter has a most unhappy time...
...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...