Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that opulently festive corner of the earth where Maestro Ziegfeld gathers his bards. . . . The swiftest, most lighthearted, loose-limbed show for miles and years around. . . ."-Gilbert Gabriel, in the American...
...gold greens will be built on Soldiers Field during the spring as a result of action taken at the last meeting of the Harvard Athletic Committee, it was learned last night. The greens will be located in the north-east corner of the field behind the Freshman gridirons and will have sufficient space to allow various iron shots...
...John, in fact, suspected that someone over here in the States had been doing a bit of business in his name. Upon being reassured that there actually was a "Green Jacket" with his name in the corner of it on display in a local gallery, he registered suspicion and expressed a desire...
...story is familiar enough in the financial district of New York, where the memory of Wyckoff hovers ghostlike in many an office corner, and the name of Cecelia G. Wyckoff is flaunted fortnightly at the masthead of the Magazine of Wall Street. The chapters of it fall into the following sequence...
...neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...