Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence for the Dean of the Business School is being built at the southeast corner of the Business School grounds, in accordance with the wishes of George F. Baker, donor of the new buildings...
...instinct. It is for those Americans who have diminished interest in the ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome of a pre-arranged contest. Rarely in an era of corner-pools and Wall Street cabals can anything but a football game present Chance unhandcuffed...
...blue-gummed, henna-bearded gaffer, Jack Horner-like, pulls out a lump. Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose. Marshallah! A rose-pink pearl, pale, perfect, which-flesh-embedded-escaped the first casual pawing of the opened shells...
...smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless...
...Clarence Saunders, head of the Piggly-Wiggly chain grocery stores, tried to corner his company's stock, had it thrown off the board, lost $4,000,000, went $300,000 in debt. Last week, Mr. Saunders said that he had $250,000,000 backing for a new $50,000,000 chain grocery organization...