Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later in the week there was "news" in the Prudence Building; there were photographs of Mr. Smith's smiling face still in Manhattan newspapers. The news, personal, was that Mr. and Mrs. Smith will move, about July 1, to a new apartment building at No. 51 Fifth Avenue, corner of 12th St. The suite (10 rooms, 3 baths) is on the top story; it is believed that Contractor William Kenny (who supplied the campaign private car) will occupy the rest of the floor. Other close neighbors will be Tammany-leader George W. Olvany and Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen...
...English, of the Prudence Co. (mortgages and building loans). An old friend of the onetime Governor, Mr. English has frequently turned these offices over to him for conferences, for preparation of speeches, for other occasions demanding labor or solitude. The room occupied by Mr. Smith is on the corner facing his former suite in the Biltmore Hotel. The ceiling is of Spanish stucco, the walls, panelled in mission oak, are decorated with stuffed animal heads. *Mr. Cohen whom newspaper men last week certainly referred to as an office boy, figured as a secretary during the presidential campaign, shared, perhaps...
...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...
News from a corner of the earth rather remote from these prosperous states would indicate that the best laid plans of those statesmen who framed the Versailles Peace Treaty have once more gone astray. When three subject peoples of the old Austrian Empire were removed from the rule of that country and lumped into the combined Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened...
...Widener Library neared completion, a sizeable subway was constructed from University Hall past the corner of the new library, under Massachusetts Avenue, down Linden Street, under Mt. Auburn Street, and thence to the rear of the then new Gore Hall of the Freshman group. At that point, when the steam pipes were installed, connection was made with the system from the Elevated power plant. The heating service, even at that great distance, proved satisfactory and it was gradually extending until all the Yard buildings, except the house occupied by Professor Palmer, were connected with the central plant. Later...