Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once presided over all lady Democrats as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now presides over all U. S. coinage & bullion as director of the Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan and now overflowing the Assay Office there. "This...
...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
Temporarily unphotographed, Lovers Greta Garbo (real name: Greta Louvisa Gustafsson) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski were bowling along in an automobile near Stockholm. Stoky, driving, cut a corner too sharply: the car turned over, shook them up good & proper...
...Boston, which does more than four percent of the country's book business, buyers at the 110-year-old Old Corner Bookstore last month picked My Son, My Son!, bought ten copies to every seven of The Importance of Living...
...After the last gabbling articulate human had passed from the earth, a single sunlit raindrop falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...