Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right now we can be particularly proud of our Republican party. By the courage, foresight and humanity of President Hoover and his successful proposal for an international debt holiday the world has turned the corner to a new order of things. The world looks to our Republican President as a savior...
...Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring is a Democrat in Republican Kansas) and with presidential nominations nearing...
...Vincent Richards crushed Karel Kozeluh in one of the finest exhibitions of sustained attack I have ever witnessed. ... It seemed to me that he played Richards' backhand too much . . . missed many openings to Richards' forehand corner. . . . Kozeluh was wild and erratic in his efforts to pass Richards...
...stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...Baltimore Bertram R. Yeatman planned to divorce his wife and marry a Mrs. Sophie Lowery. One morning Mrs. Sophie Lowery told him she was already married. Nevertheless she promised to meet him on a street-corner later in the day to discuss ways & means. Bertram R. Yeatman kept the appointment, waited on the street-corner for five hours. When Mrs. Sophie Lowery at last came, he shot her dead...