Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Derby's Sansovino led with Hurstwood, Bright Night and Tom Pinch. Down the spongy, muddy track squelched the horses, the pouring rain dashing into their faces. Little by little Sansovino and St. Germans drew away from the rest. When the field plodded around the dreaded Tattenham corner it was clear that Sansovino was the winner and some few seconds later he carried the black-and-white colors of Lord Derby to victory by a lead of six lengths over Lord Astor's St. Germans. Tremendous cheers greeted the victory-cheers for the horses and for the jockey...
This building will be located at the corner of the Yard nearest the rotunda, exactly on the site of old Dane Hall which was burned in 1917. Since that time the College offices have been housed in a temporary frame structure located next to Memorial Hall in the delta...
...press can still give five column headlines to the Cleveland Convention, and speak of events there enthusiastically, while it delegates the French political crisis to the corner. Next year's prize editorial may be a repeater on President Coolidge. The vice-presidential nominee is hardly a "surprise". But so long as the American political machine is capable of producing nothing more interesting than its present output, the great American public will have to get its excitement from Russian revolutions. Nevertheless, this method of America's is probably the very best way to get rich, for revolutions and political kaleidoscopes cost...
...State procession of six carriages then proceeded from the station to Hyde Park Corner, down Constitutional Hill to Buckingham Palace. The route was lined with soldiers and police, behind whose cordons were tens of thousands of cheering spectators. "Little Italy" (Italian colony in London) was there, waving the Italian tricolor and shouting "Viva il Re" and "Viva Savoia." Inside the Palace Court was drawn up a guard of honor composed of the Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters) dressed in their picturesque Tudor uniforms...
...Carpentier: "At Michigan City, Ind., I discovered that two ringside tickets for the Carpentier-Gibbons fight (see Page 27) had been stolen from my pocket. Reports said that 'the excitable little Frenchman . . . went off in a tantrum,' that Frank Parker, fight promoter, escorted me to a quiet corner, learned of the disaster, restored quiet by offering two of his own ringside seats...