Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer who, in the flush of success, takes advantage of his wife's good...
...Rochester, N. Y. There were many hours to spare aboard ship. Mr. Eastman's hobby was music and Tenor Rosing had time to talk of his ideal to produce opera for English-speaking audiences in their own language. Mr. Eastman listened well, tucked it all away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received a cable, and in the fall, after canceling a year's concert engagements, Tenor Rosing returned to the U. S. to be operatic director of the Eastman School of Music. Vladimir Rosing is a Russian, steeped in the artistic notions that...
...this point, Dr. Palely, with a catlike spring, bounds from the corner where he has been mixing his iodine and argyrol cocktall...
From this gloomy basement Young Griffo walked each day to his idler's post near the swirling corner of Broadway and 42nd St. Sporting men, theatre men, fighters, promoters, touts, hangers-on knew Griffo...
...selling of shoe laces when eight years old. Ten years later I started a business of my own in Brattle Street, but have expanded rapidly. Once I was situated where Bond's Oyster Bar is on Bow Street, but 13 years ago I managed to get just around the corner' where...