Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton run out the block. As Sutton clicked off the final point, Mark Twain solemnly stepped over and shook young Hoppe by the hand. "I want to congratulate you, William," said he, ''on your remarkable tenure of that chair in the corner...
Shortly before 10:45 one night last week Patrick J. Corcoran, 45-year-old union chief of 12,000 American Federation of Labor drivers, rounded a corner near his home in the Bryn Mawr section of Minneapolis, suddenly turned to flee and slumped to the sidewalk with a bullet in his brain. At midnight neighbors discovered his snow-covered body. Mrs. Corcoran dashed from the house wailing: "It's Pat. I knew they...
...photograph was not reversed, else the map of the U. S., on the wall behind them, would, in such case, be poking its Florida thumb out on the Southwest corner...
...Berryman (see cut, p. 15). The mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...where booksellers, publishers, authors, reviewers and readers are concentrated. The aggressive price-cutting department of R. H. Macy's department store does almost five per cent of the U. S. retail book business, ten per cent of New York's retail business. Boston's historic Old Corner Bookshop does about one per cent of the nation's retail book business and most of Boston...