Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market buying futures. Good times, not bad, put it there. There was a crop failure in Russia. U. S. grain prices spurted up and away from the weak security market. Talk of "dollar wheat" got back in press headlines. Farmers, faintly smiling, began paying off long overdue bills. A corner of some kind had been turned in wheat history...
...needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...
...dollar's worth of goods at the corner store, paying for it with your Canadian silver dollar...
...born in Kalamazoo, Mich., lives in Manhattan but likes Chicago best. She started newspaper work at 17, sold her first story when she was 23 (she is now 44). A plugger herself, she likes to write about workers. Her two ambitions: "To sit in a rocking-chair at the corner of State & Madison streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays, she has also written : Dawn O'Hara, Fanny Herself, The Girls...
...stage). But he had performed funerals for actors. He agreed readily to do so for Actor Holland. The Press heard of the incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame of The Little Church Around the Corner. To celebrate it and tell its history there was published last fortnight an elegantly bound and printed volume, Through the Lich-Gate.* Some facts...