Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
Looking like a well-fed Chinese war lord stripped to his trunks, almond-eyed, flat-faced Tony Galento waddled out of his corner and started to swing his short arms in an old-fashioned goto. He missed five out of every six swings. Before the chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...
...Bill hearings about to open in Washington this week, the QRX signal to stand by hummed through the U. S. radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated...
Even more frustrating than the lamp corner in many department stores is the room where second-rate reproductions of third-rate paintings are customarily sold under the name of Art. In the last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...