Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney...
Pelorus Jack cleared the jump. Then, riderless, he swung wildly across the track instead of turning the sharp corner. He crowded Heartbreak Hill, the favorite. He tripped Gregalach who won in 1929 and Grakle who won last year. He blundered into six others, knocking them down. He kicked Sea Soldier (a son of Man o'War), the only U. S.-bred horse in the race. When the field gathered itself from the confusion, a scattered line instead of a close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker...
...long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi's Maria Egiziaca might have caused more stir last week. Toscanini planned to direct the production. But instead Composer Respighi came. He relegated Philharmonic Symphony players to a dark corner of the Carnegie Hall stage. In their usual place a great gilt-framed triptych stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond...
There is nothing very bad in finding that Lowell wears well, nor is there anything particularly starting in the discovery. When gamins form a club in the old house at the corner they borrow a sheet from the family linen closet and paint an ominous skull and cross bones on it, or they select a secret pass word, or they conceive a now hand shake. It is all such jolly fun and so confusing to the other club round the corner. At times organizations are even formed for the sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty...
...haste to the scene of conflagration the Vagabond was delighted to discover that the De Wolf Street "shambles" were being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...