Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation will be led by E. M. Littell '26, who will be glad to give any particulars to men desiring them, between 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock this afternoon at Stoughton 19. Men can join the parade at 2 o'clock tomorrow, at the starting point, the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets...
...even if they do not die, are generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled to sad bony wisps. Such dogs throw a ghastly shadow as they limp about in the sunlight...
With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...
When Mr. Clive had finished, Mr. De Wolf Hopper, veteran of light opera fame, took the platform and with booming voice that filled every corner of the room, spent an hour recounting amusing incidents of his long and varied career...
...only one solution, and the Football Giants have partially hit upon it. Football is a tremendously dramatic spectacle, not only in the game itself but in all the trappings as well. The Football Giants will have to go the whole length and bring in all the urchins from the corner lots to do the hard vocal labor. Then, with a leather-lunged cheering section of hired talent, and with hired cheer-leaders and a hired band, the excitement-loving, face can lean back in his seat and really enjoy all the spontaneous pagentry that is football...