Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit in one corner. It is probably the richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress...
...Brussels two gendarmes lolled last week near a corner of the famed Avenue de Louise, perhaps the most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers, Monsieur, your license? It is not permitted to circulate upon the Avenue de Louise at such a speed. C'est interdit...
...handsome young man sailed 10,000 miles through calm and stormy seas, returned (TIME, June 28). Last week he journeyed to White Pine Camp at President Coolidge's invitation. He presented his card: Harvey S. Firestone Jr. If such things were done, there might have been in one corner of the card: Son of famed tire-magnate; in another corner Princeton University, 1920; and finally, below his name in bold type: Extremely well-informed on rubber...
...Millions of chickens pass our door every afternoon, and our corner is the meeting place for many jackasses. The manure lies around in heaps. Open your sweetheart's account with us-Farmers Loan & Trust...
...that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann, the eminent German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds to a companion or reader. Yet Wassermann's art is great, and, amply rewards people of patience and perception...