Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberal Press was shunted well off to one corner. There Robert Morse Lovett of the New Republic pursed his lips in amused disapproval, nursed a fat brief case between his knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...Milwaukee. Rising from runner to head of his bank and national fame, Banker Bigelow plunged into the wheat market in the wake of John Warne ("Bet a Million") Gates. With the connivance of subordinates, he tapped the bank's funds to finance his speculation. The Gates corner in May wheat collapsed in 1905; Banker Bigelow was trapped. Since serving six years of a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth, he had lived in obscurity...
Enterprising Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsmen pilots, plays an all-aerial game. The hare is a plane on one side of which is painted a number unknown to the hound-pilots. The hare is given a five-minute start, is limited to county boundaries. Hounds try to corner the hare, then get within reading distance of the secret number-a maneuver requiring dogfight combat tactics...
...anoa (pygmy water buffalo) weighing 200 Ib. attacked and killed a 350-lb. nilgai. Animalcatcher Buck named him Little Tough Guy, but a few days later he found him cringing in a corner of his cage. Nearby was a 7-lb. porcupine...
Capitalist International? In the past most bankers have been closely nationalistic. All look askance today upon the Socialist International and the Communist International. But sound conservative Gates McGarrah proceeded to prescribe for the world's fiscal ills last week three steps which amount to laying the corner stone of a Capitalist International. The prescribed steps...