Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also the social service workers have promoted the Freshman's early welfare through their information bureau open since Monday in the Northwest corner of the Yard...
...Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans when reporters questioned him in Georgia: "I have not examined all the rolls of the Alabama Klan but I know Black is not now a member." Meanwhile the New York Times reported that Justice Black, vacationing in Paris, had dodged efforts of its correspondents to corner and question him. There was little wonder if Justice Black took refuge in the traditional prerogatives of the Nine Old Men of whom he now is one. Secure in a life job, he had little to worry about. If the past of the first liberal justice appointed by Franklin Roosevelt...
...province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner. Prof. Fred Eastman, of Chicago's Theological Seminary, countered with a straight right to the heart. "Whether the producer knows it or not," he jabbed, "he is an educator. He shapes emotions, intelligence, sets up character patterns and everything that determines outlook on life...
...with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below) but blamed the public's insistence on being entertained at all costs. "To get a camera and go to work" was exactly what...
Without the slightest evidence of fear Tommy Farr bounced out of his corner aimed two left jabs at the stolid face of Joe Louis, hit his dark opponent with a ft and right, mussed his own hair Thus last week began a prize fight that was to have a surprise ending. After one of Farr's blows had bounced him off the ropes Louis learned to watch for hard punches ducking, taking them on his arms, or rolling away. Louis soon found the range with left jabs, opened cuts under Farr's eves. After more of this Farr...