Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shirts told it to the White Collars ; and from every corner of the U. S. over which the Italian flag waves, they came to stand in line at the doors of the Manhattan Opera House, wherein Bernardo de Muro, famed Italian tenor, sang last week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites of other nationalities read with astonishment of the singing of this De Muro-how his allegro was as clear as the bells of- Capri, his pianissimo tender as the mandolins of Sorrento and how the great assembly of his countrymen in the galleries, pit and loges of the old opera...
Were you suddenly to be transplanted to Cambridge, however, you would no longer fit into the above description, even were you to spend four years here. Every month or two we turn a strange corner and find some hitherto unnoticed building filling up half the block and what is more, no one can ever tell us what it is or why it is there. Some genii could drop a new building, possibly a "School for Making Better Piano Keys", into the midst of the scattered campus, and the Freshman of today would scarcely have learned of its existence...
...this one included. We consider it scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...
...strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...
...signal case of "squeezing the shorts." From under 50, the stock shot up to about 70-not because it was intrinsically worth so much as because so many people had sold it who did not own it. The Stock Exchange is closely watching the stock, in fear of a corner developing. The "shorts" must either buy Sumatra preferred at high prices and get rid of a bad bargain, or else stay short, borrowing, the stock and paying a premium of ½% or more a day ($50 a day on each 100 shares...