Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Pierpont Morgan stood, last week, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, he doubtless noted that increasing the size of the private dining room of J. P. Morgan & Co. is altering the Wall street skyline. But he had no fears that the great House of Morgan would become top-heavy, tumble. Its four stories rest on foundations built to support thirty...
...song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar stores were listening to the radio announcement of Governor Smith's nomination for President by the Democratic Party...
...When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
...East Williston, L. I., schoolboys played golf. From Hotchkiss School, famed institution on a hill over a lake in the northwest corner of Connecticut, came two youths, classmates, both 16, who met in the finals. Then Sidney W. Noyes Jr. beat Robert A. Moffett...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...