Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, around the corner from the home of Mayor S. Davis Wilson's secretary, a State trooper was discovered last week eavesdropping on the secretary's tapped telephone line. Choleric, ambitious Mayor S. Davis Wilson immediately exploded : "I challenge the Governor and his minions! . . . This is worse than Russia ... a despicable conspiracy ... to destroy me and my family! ... To think that the man responsible for this sort of thing wants to be President of the U. S.! . . . My God, this goes to the fundamentals of our Government! ... I want to announce here and now that...
...Policeman Kelly shoved his gun into its holster and grabbed the two blackamoors by their belts. Something struck him-a knife, he thought-jab, jab, jab, seven times in the left side. Something cut gash after gash in his face. He staggered outside, managed to make it around the corner to the police station...
...weeks ago the Senator was there for dinner. Last week his body was brought to the undertaking rooms two floors below where he had dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...
...showed a net gain of less than 3 points for the week. Daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange never reached 1,000,000 shares.* Yet Wall Street had what Owen D. Young calls a "feeling in the seat of the pants" that the market had turned a corner. From a recovery high early in March to their low in June the Dow-Jones industrials dropped approximately 15%, from 194.4 to 165.5. By last week they were back to 172.2. Mercurial shifts in Wall Street sentiment can never be adequately explained but the chief contributing factors last week seemed...