Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Robinson, bound for Albany, whirled in an automobile through a narrow one-way street in Hastings, N. Y. Around a corner, going the wrong way, appeared a taxicab. Voices shouted, brakes screamed, the cars stopped without crashing, no one was hurt...
...great steamships before repairing to Bavaria to hunt chamois; while the President of France rested at Rambouillet prior to exerting himself in honor of the visiting U. S. Secretary of State-the President of the U. S. continued casting flies and reeling in trout in the northwest corner of Wisconsin...
...forerunner of a world conference, to be called in October, to limit production in all oil fields, ending the race to corner the supply, lessening international tension...
...massed battalions of Democracy seethed to glimpse an Al arrayed in black. Up Michigan Boulevard sped a strangely guarded Al-dozens of motorcycle police, five detectives, three machine guns. Columns of people lined the streets, blackened the windows-people who scarcely saw the Al who almost hid in the corner...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...