Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tokonoma or Corner of Honor is a small niche in one corner of the traditional Japanese parlor. Always before the tokonoma is a vase of flowers; in it hangs a single picture, generally the only picture in the house. The picture in the tokonoma is changed weekly or monthly according to the extent of the owner's collection...
...Louis in two years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series of notes, illiterately penned...
...order to house recent acquisitions and to satisfy a pressing need for more space, the Fogg Art Museum will build a new wing in 1932 extending from the present southward corner of the building to Prescott Street, it was disclosed yesterday. The addition will be three or possibly four stories high. It will contain several new rooms for display purposes and will offer increased library facilities as well as more space for research and special work...
Fear lest Japan and Russia shoot it out over Manchuria focused the world's eye on Moscow one day last week. Mist shrouded the Red Square. Through wisps of white the pointed towers of the Kremlin looked down like medieval alchemists in tall, peaked hats; at one corner of the flat-topped red granite tomb of LENIN stood Dictator Joseph Stalin, the Red War Lord?if he should choose to declare...
Back at his quarters in Kingsley Hall, St. Gandhi was invited to eat again-this time at Buckingham Palace at a tea party for the delegates to the Indian Round Table Conference. Blinking at the lower right hand corner of the invitation where was engraved the phrase Morning Dress, St. Gandhi announced...