Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their leader, Charles E. Hughes, some 400 U. S. men of law trooped into Westminster Abbey, London, found chairs reserved for them In Poet's Corner. Though not yet offi- cially the guests of the English Bench and Bar, the visitors' presence was recognized by a sermon on Fundamentalism vs. Modernism, their native religious issue...
Much of Wall Street's history during 1924 is bound up with Mr. G. F. Baker's vain attempt to take a vacation. Mr. Baker is too important a factor in financial affairs to remain long away from the dingy brick building at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway which houses the First National Bank. Mr. Baker is now en route from Europe-another at- tempted vacation ruined. Again, the cause for his return is the great Van Sweringen railroad mergers. The "Lords of Erie" have in their day been greatly varying types of men. No greater...
...tight" corner in which a Laborite's wife found herself...
...charged from their benches upon the Right Députés. Yells of defiance were hurled by the Right upon the advancing Left. The collision shook the Chambre. Fists shot out to eyes, noses and ears. Yells of hate and screams of pain deafened the onlookers. In one corner was ex-Minister of War André Maginot, defending his person against the assaults of the enemy. Wallops were given, wallops were taken. M. Maginot proved himself a true warrior, fighting in torn clothes, giving as good as he received. Somewhere there was a sound of torn linen, followed...
Then she goes back to her old home in Beldingsville, Vt., lives with her Aunt Polly. Here it was that she had arrived some years before (in Pollyanna), a forlorn little orphan determined to play the "glad game." This was the same little corner she had brightened before, and naturally it falls on its neck to make her welcome, it has not forgotten the wistful little minister's daughter who even found something to be "glad" about when a pair of crutches was all that came for her in the missionary barrel...