Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they wrongfully seek to carry the property and the interests entrusted to them into the arena of partisan politics. . . . "They...
Taxing the German Government and Judiciary with "avowed abolition" of the "corner stones of judicial morality," the onetime High Commissioner of the League of Nations goes far toward confirming Adolf Hitler's conviction that one of the Realmleader's greatest and most German strokes of statecraft was to lead the Fatherland out of the League. With Geneva thus in effect shut out of German affairs, Germans, on Mr. McDonald's showing, are reveling today in a carnival of race pride, race prejudice and exaltation of race...
...Defendant Barrett had to be wheeled into the Federal courtroom to hear sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...
...championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent of the squalling & brawling of the corner pool parlor. Titleholder Ponzi refused to play unless paid a $1,000 bonus, sought an injunction against the tournament's sponsors. When this was denied, he sulked in his own emporium...
...word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made them invariably exciting by her intonations, her subtle gestures...