Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over what seem to them the excruciating platitudes of U. S. President Calvin Coolidge. Last week however they saw nothing similarly humorous in the following dialogue, which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering...
...editors believed, and rightly, as events proved--that the suggestion of censorship or suppression would increase their sales. Accordingly the paper was printed with one corner perfectly blank and with a similar blank space taking up about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much...
That decided at 80 Broadway, a message sped around the corner to the National City Bank Building on Wall Street...
There, in a corner decked with sweet smelling blossoms, the president of the German Empire† found a polling box and gravely deposited therein his ballot...
...ring at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, and smiled genially at Lightweight Champion Samuel Mandell. A great shout went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy to the last gong, Harp-wearer McLarnin chased Champion Mandell, who beat him backing up, retained the title. This fight...