Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyers, architects, actors, brokers. It is absurd to hear such names applied to inky insolence in corduroy. Mr. Tabor was aware of this; he showed it by setting rows of black-marks against some of the sleekest platinum-and-roseleaf names; he would stand 60-pound celebrities in the corner with their hands over their heads. And he was ones leader of a club* of 10,000 boys with names like Doolan, Silverstein, Coveleskie, Giacomo-and some with no names...
...Hunt '93, our business manager, was at the bottom of it. He arranged with Wheeler, who then ran a printing press at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, for the use of his press. Mac and Ed (McCarter and Kneeland, for 33 years in charge of printing the CRIMSON) were there on the job to set type...
Ticket holders who park their cars in the private parking field or on the Brighton playground off Western Avenue, may enter through Gate 9, at the Southern corner of the field. Those parking their cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter either through Gate 14 or Gate 19, the latter opposite the Newell Boat House...
Forced to swap half a dozen celluloid monkeys for that rare toy, an orangutan, and later obliged to supervise personally the manufacture of a duckbill, Mr. Taylor now claims that the present menagerie reposing in the corner of his workroom contains more different animals than any other of its kind. Tiny barns contain the various types of cattle and sheep and the great number of other animals stand in typical positions on the floor...
Automobile owners with no special passes will be admitted to parkway space within the enclosure through gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field...