Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other words, a big stick in the corner, though not in the hand, is worth two in the bushes...
Lipton. "I always ask the reporters to put stories about me in an obscure corner of the first page," said jovial Sir Thomas Lipton, at Manhattan last week, when asked if he objected to publicity...
There were some paintings hung on the walls of a tiny room in the Anderson Galleries; other paintings, smaller ones, rested on cabinets or stood along the floor. The room was full of people, talking to each other in awed, foolish whispers. In the corner of the room sat a lady dressed in a black cloth coat, smiling like a severe Mona Lisa. She was Georgia O'Keeffe; the paintings on the wall belonged to her because she had made them; for some reason, the room seemed hers as well...
What was a songwriter at best that Vienna should be mindful of him, Vienna who had her Beethoven there just around the corner making big symphonies and an opera? The Schubert operas with their trashy librettos were chaff compared to it. No one ever heard his symphonies, or of him, an awkward fellow, a song writer...
...important detail of "pulpit technique," which, in the recent poll conducted by the Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous region in which ignorant and reckless ladies derive a huge profit from services best...