Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuel Osorio de Zuniga by Goya, shows the little grandee with a gay sash round his waist, leading his pet magpie with a string tied to its leg while two big-eyed cats gaze hungrily from a corner...
...other three races will be over the one and three-quarter mile course, finishing in the corner of the Basin just west of the Boston end of the Subway bridge (right off the Union Boat Club). Best place to watch the race: standing on the Subway bridge near the Charles Street Station. It is practically impossible to follow this course in an automobile...
...fortieth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs of America, scheduled to take place in Indianapolis on May 15th, is an event of no small importance to either the University or to the varied thousands of graduates scattered in every corner of the nation. In recent years the practice of a twenty-fifth reunion has done splendid work in bringing back to the confines of Harvard, men in all walks of life, in all callings and in every profession. Holders of vastly different political creeds and men firm in varied social and moral beliefs have met and renewed acquaintances...
Messages of felicitation from every corner of the University were flying yesterday to the Massachusetts Avenue headquarters of a certain well-known figure in the educational world. The grievous mistake of a group of serenaders who had the brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast...
...newshawks trooped into Mr. Ball's suite, they glanced about for some of the familiar financial faces that reports had linked to the deal-Boston's old Frederick Henry Prince, Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton, General Motors' Donaldson Brown. None was there. Talking in a corner was Erie R. R.'s Chairman Charles Leininger Bradley but he was obviously on hand to talk to his new bosses. Old Mr. Ball, neat, spare, paternal, stood chatting with newshawks, giving as good as he received, just as he did in Washington when Montana's Wheeler...