Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points?Point Concepci�n (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly...
...actual fact Miss Adams is not such an amateur as the majority may suppose. Ever since her recovery from the illness which cut short her tour in 1918 she has been busy studying stage lighting and the mechanics of motion pictures. Her laboratory has been buried in some obscure corner of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., and she has consistently resisted attempts to obtain information regarding her activities...
Here, tucked away in a corner, is a poem by a man now famous throughout the English-speaking world ? bought as a space-filler then. Here is the one fine short story published by another?now his novels sell by the hundred thousand, but if he is remembered beyond a decade it will be for that short story. A ponderous article shivers at the radicalism of certain daring young artists ? now safely tucked away by the new sophisticates on the dusty shelf of reactionary classicism. Another proves a European War impossible with the most convincing sort of statistics...
...authorities of the New York Stock Exchange refused after due consideration to replace the shares of the Stutz Motor Car Co., cornered by Allan A. Ryan in 1920, in its list. After the corner Mr. Ryan was, however, forced by his subsequent bankruptcy to sell out his Stutz holdings, and the largest stockholder at the present time is Charles M. Schwab. The refusal of the Exchange was no reflection on the financial standing of the Company, but was forced by the usual policy of the Exchange in requiring stock issues to be well distributed before their entry upon...
...jolt in the pocketbook from Jack Druley, who promoted his exhibition with Joe Downey, of Columbus, O. The furry financier, who saw this wallop coming when Druley paid only half of his $4,000 guarantee before the gong clanged, tried to dodge it by sulking in his corner and refusing to box more than four rounds unless the balance forthcame. This sulkiness prompted more than 10,000 Indianapolitans (already infuriated by Governor McCray's decree that the go must be a gentle exhibition) to surge about the ring demanding satisfaction. Their Mayor, Lew Shank, clambered to the platform threatening...