Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flag of Nationalism is red, with a blue field in the upper staff corner, upon which is sewn one white, 12-pointed star...
...then his jaw, game and unchewed, received a blow which caused the heavy sound upon the canvas of a falling body. Several seconds passed and what was left of Heeney remained almost motionless. Then the gong rang, ending the tenth round. Heeney's seconds carried him to his corner, poured water on him, rubbed him, wiped some of the blood off his face, got him on his feet for the eleventh round. Courageously, he delivered two or three blows, but received a dozen which made his knees bend and his back feel the ropes. Referee Edward Forbes, night sports...
...medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even...
Greedy little boys, disturbed in a crap game by a patrolman, return deviously, cautiously, to the street corner where the game was in progress. Last week, the small operators, "piker traders," sidled back to the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, to see if the absorbing Stock Exchange was once more safe for speculation. They watched, guessed, dabbled. The market was quiet, neither bullish nor bearish. Puzzled, the traders waited for more convincing results of the new 5% rediscount rate, wondered if the battle of the bulls and bankers were in progress, already ended, or just beginning...
From a work-buried Cabinet officer, which he had so enjoyed being that he half hoped President Coolidge would not accept his resignation, Herbert Clark Hoover had to change last week into the ruling party's actual, active heir presumptive. He clung to his secluded corner office in the Department of Commerce as long as possible, inspecting final reports, perfecting the next year's budget, bequeathing last orders to the large corps of minor executives whose number and loyalty had grown together since...