Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
...corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain...
...Coolidge, unannounced, went around the corner from the White House and entered the Corcoran Art Gallery. It was a "Public Day" and they mixed themselves with a crowd admiring the hanging art upon the walls...
Little Jack Horner, sitting in his corner and eating with his fingers, inculcates bad table-manners...
...referee, sorry for the battered little man, had been watching for the towel. As it struck, he stepped between the fighters. Friends rushed to the little man - he was a Featherweight Danny Kramer of Philadelphia- and helped him to his corner, beaten. The human whirlwind- he was Featherweight Louis ("Kid") Kaplan of Meriden, Conn.-stood panting but jubilant while they raised his right hand aloft and declared that, by a technical knockout, he was winner, he was world's featherweight champion...