Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended to the smallest merchant, the one-plow farmer, the corner bootblack...
Puckish little Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner is famed for his keen Socialist intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
According to Havana police, the 6 Ib. of dynamite were placed at a street-corner which the President was scheduled to pass in his automobile. An electric cable ran from the bomb to a magneto detonator some distance away. A gardener noticed the wire, called police. They hid near the detonator. A swank motor car drove up. Out stepped Dr. Igacio Mendoza and two other young men-about-town, one his cousin. All were arrested. Just then the President's car appeared. Recognizing the young men. General Machado alighted smiling, insisted on shaking hands with them all, exclaiming...
...months Manhattan artists have hungrily watched the International Music Hall in the northwest corner of Rockefeller Center, first unit to approach a state of polish and finish. Hearing rumors of a splendiferous interior, they waited for jobs. In April the architects announced: "Preference will be given the American artist." Last week U. S. decorator Donald Deskey was picked to design the interior of International Music Hall, world's largest theatre...
...opponents work hard in the early rounds, cut them down slowly when they are tired. In the eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might...