Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books, connected enough to satisfy the greatest stickler for good connections. For both the books concerned nephews, one, the glass relative of the Gentle Cardinal Peter Bon; the other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying, "I ask you?" But the voice was unfair. Just because a lady has divorced two husbands and married a poet, she need not fear to walk with Dickens, even in a room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In fact Dickens might rather like to talk with her, might find...
...said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand one (there were no advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent in my subscription. Since then, I have brought it to the attention of my club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your newsmagazine satisfies...
...Chicago cemetery, but within the fortnight it was announced that the Episcopal church of Kenilworth, 111. (village on Lake Michigan, 16 mi. north of Chicago, where lived William C. Englard Jr., a grandson of Eugene Field), is to have a memorial window and a "poet's corner"; that the poet's body will be moved there, together with personal mementos saved by his widow in the hope that their home would be preserved as a memorial...
Into the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) there strolled last week one Captain Gordon Canning, Britisher. Negligently leaning upon one corner of the desk of an undersecretary, he flipped open the following interesting document, which he claimed to have brought from the war area in Morocco...
...hours later the patrolman's attention was arrested by a crimson puddle of blood that spread its darkening stain over the flagstones at No. 346 West 41st St. A hundred feet from the corner the Negro lay in the gutter with two bullet holes in his body. Patrolman Meehan glanced casually at the black, distorted face, and then stepped to the telephone to inform his captain that the person known to the police as Louis Phal, and to the public as Battling Siki, once light- heavyweight champion of the world, had been shot to death...