Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more respected than affluent Mr. Zimman. One night last week Mr. Zimman was called (he says) to the telephone at his home. A friend was seriously ill. Did Mr. Zimman have a little alcoholic stimulant? Mr. Zimman did. Well, a friend of the friend would come down to the corner to get it. Mr. Zimman carefully wrapped a whole gallon jug of liquor in a paper and, without coat, without collar, went out to wait on the corner. A car drove up. To the two men in it Mr. Zimman passed his jug. They took it -and then they tried...
...Rome, Ga., is a textile mill. Its cornerstone, another Mussolini gift, was sent last year from the Coliseum's crumbling walls. The American Chatillon Rayon Co. was started on Italian capital. Therein lay the cause for the Mussolini corner stone, the Mussolini she-wolf, which will be formally presented by an Italian mill executive. In the U. S. there are 13 other Romes. No Italian mills have they, hence no she-wolves...
...first to arrive at the Members' Entrance was pepper-tongued Lady Nancy Astor, Virginia Conservative. Springing from her car before it had stopped she dashed into the building closely followed by Lt. Col. Sir Frederick Hall, a fellow Conservative. Both were intent on obtaining a certain comfortable corner seat on the Opposition benches. The instant the doors were opened, in they dashed with 40 other early arrivals. Lady Astor paused for an instant to take a card from an attendant with which to stake her seat. It was a fatal pause. Sir Frederick Hall kept going, got there first...
Tearing off her gloves to clap louder, she saw the horse guards and the King's carriage just turning the corner...
...said Captain Rowland H. Macy, onetime whaling skipper, then a storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years of steady growth with the purchase of L. Bamberger & Co., potent Newark department store. Macy's 1928 sales* were $90,251,396; Bamberger's were $35,001,214. The 1929 sales of the two stores are expected to reach $140,000,000. The 1928 net income of the combination was approximately...