Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unrocked by revolution the northwest corner of Mexico celebrated the Sabbath and St. Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm...
...Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says his prayers, it is going to be in the presence of the entire family, with father sitting in the corner by the radio reading the Times and smoking his good-night pipe...
...times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics and as reporting, too slipshod to amuse metropolites. Best shot: Two old men in a corner of a speakeasy...
Last week, Akron households could prudently rejoice that the Spectre was averted. Complete figures for 1928 showed low profits, heavy losses since 1927. But the figures also showed that the corner had been turned, that staggering inventory losses had been absorbed, that tire companies may reasonably hope for a happy and prosperous 1929. Net income reports of leading companies...
...whimsy with which they are dealing that it vanishes in their eager hands. This is particularly true of Mary Ellis and in a lesser degree of Basil Sydney. However, not even heavy performances can completely weigh down ebullient dialog. There are worse places in life than Pooh Corner...