Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed by a telegram to look for a Negro boy with a broom handle on a certain street corner. I looked and found a pickaninny at the proper time and place. 'Where's your broom han dle?' asked I. He picked up one from behind a fence. I gave him exactly $3,333.33. Half an hour later, a minister's wife, near our home, answering her doorbell...
...Friday afternoon and Helen Wilkus, aged 7, was waiting in St. Casimir's Parochial School, Philadelphia, for her sister Eva, to take her home. Down the hallway came some boys. They pushed Helen into a corner of the sewing room, "for a punishment. ... Don't you dast turn around or leave that corner!" they said. . . Sister Eva never came. . . . Next morning a nun found a figure standing in the corner of the sewing room, stifling sobs. "It was awful dark and lonesome," said obedient Helen Wilkus. "Then the light came and I heard the sparrows and I wasn...
...Ladies' Home Journal was announced with full-page newspaper displays which shouted: "Ring down the Curtain on the Obscene! Obscene books, obscene magazines, obscene newspapers and obscene plays [nice word, obscene-a word to get a kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water in 'The Obscene Drama' in the April issue...
...Conqueror subsequently let it be known that his chauffeur had mistaken the way. Soon Chiang Kaishek, his entourage, and his formidable bodyguard were installed at a large residence. A flagstaff was erected and the red, white and blue Nationalist flag unfurled. On a blue field in the upper staff corner of a red flag rises a white...
...dormitory to replace the frame houses now standing at the corner of Mount Auburn and De Wolfe Streets, will soon be constructed by the Sterling Realty Trust, it was announced yesterday by one of its trustees. The new dormitory will not be owned by the University, but will be constructed and managed by a private concern. Plans for the building are still tentative, but it is expected that actual work will start some time in the near future...