Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inquiry proceeded which, if it found Harry F. Sinclair and his friends guilty of jury tampering, would add six years and $5,000, not to mention public condemnation for rat-in-the-corner tactics, to the list of penalties which Mr. Sinclair has for months & months been trying to evade...
...Government at first denied the very existence of the Gilbert note. Later on it admitted that it had asked for a report, but minimized its importance. Finally, driven into a corner, it promised publication, but warned all those who were expecting revelations of critical financial conditions that they would be disappointed...
...afternoon, tiptoed into a room, followed by the manager and a policeman. The room was in some disorder. Photographs were littered across the bed; a few had slid down to the floor. A picture of a girl was propped up on a chair near the window and in the corner three theatrical costumes were heaped on top of a trunk. A man was kneeling by the bed, .his hands stiffly and desperately twisted together, his head pushed down against his arms. He did not say anything when the three people came into the room. The policeman touched him, shook...
...such be the case, the Vagabond has time to pause in his daily journeys through the Yard and the elusive corners of the graduate schools to give himself congratulations. If, in some far distant day the student body shall have reached such a stage of discretion that it will be at liberty to choose all its lectures day by day-a most remote contingency-a statue of the Vagabond, mounted on roller skates or whatever means he uses to attend consecutive lectures in different parts of Cambridge, should be erected in the Square. That his efforts do more than fill...
Crime. Simon Petlura was shot at the corner of the Rue Racine, and the Boulevard St. Michel, on May 25, 1926. As M. Schwartzbard described the murder to the court...