Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-kind thoughts of the venerable G. A. R., whose martial music she could hear through her window; kind thoughts of Steve Vasilakos, the peanut merchant on whose behalf she interceded for the second time when police tried again to oust his pushcart from the White House corner; kind thoughts of her own husband. For as Mrs. Roosevelt reported in My Day, the President "asked Mrs. Scheider who was doing my column and she said, 'Mrs. Roosevelt...
...White regulars of the Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME, Sept...
Within an hour the 2,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai had been increased by 100 more who occupied the Hongkew section of the International Settlement and brusquely arrested as "suspects" everyone they could lay hands on. Every corner of the night club from which the pear core had been thrown was meanwhile ransacked by Japanese military police who said they were looking for "traces of pear peelings." Abjectly the Chinese night club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships...
...campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke. The University's 160-pound boxing champion and president-elect of the Junior class, Ohioan Burke...
...ribs, caused the expression of pained bewilderment that Louis wore throughout the Schmeling fight to cross his face again. In the fourth, a Louis right produced another knockdown. Still dizzy, Ettore went down again in the fifth. When the referee counted him out, Manager Tendler helped him to his corner...