Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every round was the same. Challenger Armstrong sprang out of his corner and in a split second was toe-to-toe and chest-to-chest with his opponent. For 15 rounds he pounded ring-wise Barney Ross with relentless fury-1.200 punches in 45 minutes. Barney Ross, dripping blood and teetering on his helpless legs, refused to quit, went the full 15 rounds rather than have his first knockout chalked against...
...course, James J. Hines, a bulky, taciturn man of 61 who started life as a blacksmith and now lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor...
...page report throws brilliant light on many a dark corner of the youth problem. Youth's biggest worries are neatly summed up by one youngster thus: "The problem is how to get married on $15 a week." Some hard facts...
...There is no reason on earth why a man or a body of men should not contribute of its money or of its life to support a cause or to support a corner of humanity. But theirs is no right to cause other men to smart under the burden of their hypocrisy...
...world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late...