Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once through the picture does one feel that the wind-machines, the smoke-bombs, and the Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
Last week preliminary plans were announced for a colossal new fane to rise on Riverside Drive at the corner of W. 122nd St. A fortnight ago the preacher was in Europe with his family. He left them there to inspect those plans in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 15). He approved the plans; hurried back to Europe last week...
Washington that Chicago is to have a new hotel, a $5,000,000 structure with 2,000 rooms, 25 stories high; down the block and across the street from The Blackstone, at the corner of Seventh St. and Wabash Ave.; and to be named The Coolidge. The President did not comment, but ardent Republicans felt it was an appropriate honor. The hotel is designed by its builders to be a moneymaker, not over-eloborate...
...Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger...
...final marker was chalked up by Stanley, who dribbled down the boards and sent a wicked shot into the upper corner...