Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ocean to settle for France, his business-like demeanor promised success. With the reign of common sense here prevailing, it almost seemed as if France's Phoenix were feigning America's go-get-it-iveness the better to suit its sovereign power. But after each side had laid a corner-stone, one at the North Pole and the other at the South, the structure collapsed at the Equator and floated blithely away to the Gold Coast...
...Manhattan at No. 1 Wall St., at the corner of Broadway and opposite Trinity Episcopal Church, is the "costliest real estate lot in the world." The plot, fronting 29.10 ft. on Broadway and 39.10 ft. on Wall St. and carrying the 18-story Chimney Building, was sold last week for a figure unnamed. Twenty-one years ago the same property sold for $576 a square foot-or $25,000,000 an acre...
...next ten years, aned Italy. The figures as to Italy's wealth and resources had been verified by the U. S. Commission. Mr. Mills turned with scorn upon those who pointed to Italy's loan at high interest from J. P. Morgan: " If this were the case of a corner grocery store instead of a nation, and the figures were hundreds of dollars instead of millions, there would not be all this 'mystery'; if the interest is high, it proves that Italy is bankrupt big debt for a dead horserices so that the U. S. got a profit...
...that roomful Wells, perhaps, was the only one who could be picked out as a lucky stockbroker or traveling salesman. He chatted pleasantly of the fabulous amounts forced upon him by the paradoxical publishers of hundreds of periodicals in every corner of the world, clamoring for his pages. Verily it was all a fairy tale gone...
...chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument was "of an architectural style entirely alien to our city and our tradition and . . . inappropriate. The site chosen for it is . . . a corner lot. . . ." Mrs. Whitney's hopes fell. Sculptor Montana went to work on a new opus to be called "The Supreme Sacrifice...