Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five hundred hens of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm at Garrettsville, Ohio, cocked a frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry...
...invented the Alexanderson high frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created. He is R. C. A.'s chief consulting engineer. One of the receiving sets used last week stood in the corner of a ground floor room in his home at Schenectady. He is 50 years old, has 150 patents to his credit...
...tradition in question claims no more for the frog than that he can live one hundred years without food or water. There seems to be no claim that the frog could live for thirty years without sun, air, and exercise, and while it is not explicitly stated that the corner stone lacked adequate ventilation, the inference is that no provision was made. If this proves to be the case, of course the death of the frog could not be in fairness held against...
Three years ago, one Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed retired Navy "gob," bought a choice corner in Newburyport, Mass., and set about erecting a gasoline station. Staid citizens invoked the town's zoning ordinance and stopped him. They were visited with red-headed revenge...
Married. Mrs. Thyra Samter Winslow, short story writer, novelist (Picture Frames, Show Business, People Round the Corner), of Manhattan, to Nelson W. Hyde, engineer, of Kew Gardens, Long Island...