Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start of the twelfth however, Sharkey darted from his corner, shot his right fist to McTigue's jaw with spectacular results. A fountain of blood spurted from the Irishman's mouth continued to spurt. Both fighters were soon smeared from head to heel with Celtic gore. Spectators, bloodthirsty of nature, were visibly relieved when Referee McPartland stopped the fight, giving Sharkey credit for a technical knockout...
...there should be no mistaking the ponderous esteem in which the city's gentility hold Mardi Gras. To receive the precious envelope with a little number in one corner is to be touched by Fortune for some girls and not to receive it is vexatious humiliation to others, for only those who have the little numbers may dance with Maskers. The old aristocracy does not forget the relative importance of the various clubs: Comus, the oldest, Atlanteans, Momus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, a score of others, nor does it become too freely intrigued with street processionals...
...ever so humble, there is no place like a corner of the earth never before visited by white men. So think the ethnologists, natural historians, geologists, cartographers and peepers and priers and pushers of all sorts who year in and out spend money and lives on arduous museum expeditions. Some expeditions, and their results, of late months...
...French Indo-China boasts a chief port (Saigon) which thoroughly deserves its nickname, "Paris of the East"? There you can sit at an iron café table, surrounded by boulevardiers who speak only French, for all the world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby is the stupendous Angkor Vat, a temple which few globe circlers see, but which ranks easily with the Taj. Down such must-be-seen or at least must-be-known-about byways Author Kirtland leads, with many a picture quite different from...
From the fortnight's clatter of suppositions-as to the reason for Wheeling & Lake Erie stocks hopping from $27.50 a share on Jan. 3 to $130 a share last week when the practical market corner in this stock was at its tightest, and the reason for other railroad stocks popping like heated popcorn kernels -these facts became certain last week...