Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interviews with Mr. Ford were not confined to any particular subject; they were general interviews embracing all matters on which Henry Ford had opinions and about which he could be induced to talk, and there were a good many. For example, when the correspondent was there a corner of Mr. Ford's laboratory had been canvased off, he had imported a dancing master, Benjamin B. Lovett, from Massachusetts, and was having him teach classes old fashioned reels, the Portland Fancy, Money Musk, the Fisher's Hornpipe, Pop Goes the Weasel, waltzes, polkas, the ripple, quadrilles, barn dances. Mr. Ford does...
Last week, doughty Canadian and U. S. clamberers under the leadership of Captain A. H. McCarthy, British-Columbian rancher, returned from a successful clamber to the pinnacle of Mount Logan (in the southwestern corner of the Province of Yukon, Canada...
...hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless operations, when suddenly Loayzo began to hop about on one foot with the deranged, sickening absurdity of one whose mind and nerves have become disconnected. A towel flew from his corner; medical examination revealed that his ankle had been fractured. The decision, the World's Lightweight Championship, went to Goodrich...
...that have made her, at 19, the women's singles champion of the U. S. She defeated Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7-5, 6-2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court-a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called...
...from out of town walked with me past the White House. He told me what he had heard regarding the insanity of the President, but said that he had refused to believe a word of it until there had been pointed out to him a bedroom in the northeast corner of the house across the window of which iron bars had been placed. He solemnly directed my attention to these bars, undeniable evidence to his mind of the truth of the insanity story...