Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in Madison Square Garden. In the first round Clark went down for a count of nine. He recuperated and got through the second. In the third he went down for seven, got up, went down again, got up, went down again. The bell rang. He walked to his corner. After each minute of rest between rounds he came out as if a new day had dawned for him after a good night's sleep. At the end of the fight La Barba, arm-weary, had shown past peradventure that he merited his title, long in dispute. Elky Clark...
...cold glare upon the University and in its Harvard Issue, print a series of sketches under the general title of "Impressions by One Who Has Never Been There." Undoubtedly, one of the subtitles will be "The Phillips Brooks House,"--and what a field for imagination! Here in one corner would be--but then, it is better not to suggest things to the Lampoon. And after all, the Phillips. Brooks House Association hasn't cause for too great fear. Even the most determined of its strangers remember the name in the haze of Student Council Budgets or Lecture Posters, and unanswered...
...month ago Roberts knocked Dundee out in one round. Wise people did not think he could do it again. The betting was even. Well did little Dundee show that he deserved this confidence when, after taking a count of eight in the fourth round, he came out of his corner like a loose propeller, pounded Roberts bloody until the last bell rang and a referee, picturesquely known as Mr. Magnolia, gave Dundee the decision...
They rushed to the window in their nightgowns, screaming. The street was full of people. In a minute the Fire Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There...
...Harvard-Princeton football break is the amount of dirt to be squeezed out of it. Already the athletic relations between the two universities have been made into a public scandal. They received the same treatment as the recent baseball crisis. They received the same attention from the street corner loafer, the same insane comments from people who never went to Harvard or Princeton, or any other college, whose interest in them, as it is in Charlie Chaplin, or Ban Johnson or Ty Cobb, is aroused by the unhealthy appetite for scandal and more scandal...