Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...famous Tattenham Corner a brown mongrel ran out on the track, tried to nip Colorado's heels. British newspapermen made much of this incident, but it is not likely that it had anything to do with the result of the race. Coronach's speed needed no mongrel help...
Brown's runs came in the first and in the seventh. After one had been retired in the opening frame, Booth threw wildly in fielding Edes' lunt the Boar right fielder, taking second. A balk advanced him to the far corner, and Ruchstall's hit through short stop sent him over. The other Brown run came in the seventh when Guerney caught one of Booth's fast balls and sent it deep into center field. Burns hooted the ball before picking it up, and the runner made the circuit on the combined hit and messy fielding...
...unities are those of time and vision, and they secure the effect of compactness and of instantaneity. "The Young Gentlemen," done in her most sure footed manner, shows Mrs. Wharton at her aggravating best, when she has a social situation well in hand, and a surprise lurking around the corner. But she does not satisfy here as in another story of the same lot, "The Temperate Zone," which represents her discernment of character displayed before a polite background, all very smooth and able, obeying all the ordinances which she had laid down. It is only when she writes travesties upon...
...must be a hard one. All the little idiosyncracies which make him delightful must be expended, paraded, with none of the fine brave martial music which excuses so must exhibitionism. His is no uniform but motley, and the whole Cambridge store of that is down Plympton Street, at the corner of Mount Auburn. And now Lampy, not satisfied with being thought bats in his belfry, has belled his belfry. It's like belling the cat, to keep him from nodding off to sleep, no doubt. And so all the caps and bells, and all the cap pistols too, in Cambridge...