Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vulture eye--"a place blue eye, with a film over it"...blood--"bleeding at the pores with dissolution"...the ghastly laughter of a drunken man walled in alive in a dank corner of the catacombs...the hot metal walls of a chamber converging to force a victim into a measureless pit--these objects of horror entered the world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle...
...these wiles, he manages to keep luxurious quarters in the best hotels, preying mostly upon persons no more honest but less versatile than himself. But he is an over-confident confidence man. His one act of outright burglary-the theft of the diamond bracelet-finally has bad consequences. Detectives corner him in his rooms, chase him down a street in automobiles, shoot him with a machine gun. He is last seen in jail, making sentimental overtures to his blonde partner (Joan Blondell...
They went down to lunch, Alfonso much put out by the fact that their private dining room was the former billiard room of the hotel with the cue rack still in the corner. They ate wild strawberries and cream...
...life close to nature, but he does not devote his whole time to it. Reforestation is his hobby. He conducts a nursery on a 75-acre farm unconnected with the Roycrofters. Except for the printing and binding shops Roycrofters are not so multitalented as they once were. The Turkish Corner passed on with Queen Victoria; modern decorations do not include many brass or bronze ornaments. But the presses, turning out mostly reprints of the Founder's works, have withstood a fair test of time. Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote...
...entrance now concealed by Foster's Restaurant instead of the rotunda. Before the rotunda was built plans were made to have three entrances or exits, one next to Lehman Hall, the only one of the three now in use; one on the site of the tobacco shop on the corner adjoining the Harvard Cooperative Society Building; and one where Foster's Restaurant now stands, and these last two passageways were constructed and are now ready...