Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another of Chicago's gang shootings took place one pleasant afternoon last week. It was held at a spot where it was most convenient for Chicago citizens to see everything but most inconvenient for Chicago police to do anything, at the crowd-jammed corner of Madison and Dearborn streets,* two blocks from the City Hall...
...Perhaps," said a Midwestern Hooverizer, "Perhaps it is just as well President Coolidge chose to go trout fishing in Wisconsin last summer." President Coolidge's presence in the northwestern corner of the State has made a lot of converts to Republican regularity in Wisconsin; also in neighboring Minnesota...
...lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should and does know city rooms such as the one in a corner of which his play begins and ends...
Near Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...