Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before he quit school, however, he was in politics. Around the corner from his home was the old Huron Club, a Tammany tepee. Carmine took to hanging around the club, was given some errands to run, moved up to precinct captain and deputy sheriff under Sheriff Daniel E. Finn-whose family had ruled the First Assembly District West for more than 70 years. In 1939, taking advantage of a factional split in the district, De Sapio ran against Finn for district leader. He won-but Tammany Hall refused to recognize him. Insurgent De Sapio and his followers picketed Tammany...
...Bonnard Harvey of Maryland and Astoria, L.I. crossed tone arms with a connoisseur whose specialty was chamber music. To upset the expert, he arrived one night bearing a gaily wrapped Scheherazade-one of the lushest of full-orchestra scores-"which he had bought at the corner drugstore for well under a dollar. 'Oh, it may have a few reproduction flaws,' he said, 'but this cheap little music-for-the-masses disk contains a flamboyant Scheherazade worthy of your steel.' " The connoisseur was so unsettled that he discussed the lowbrow disk at length, thus shattering his reputation...
...least three meals in a row. He borrowed a camera, photographed some babies, took the $40 he earned and headed for Hollywood. Brother Roy, who had just been released from a TB sanatorium in Arizona, met him there, and they set up shop in the $5-a-month corner of a Hollywood real-estate office. In the next four years the Disney studios produced 24 cartoons in a series called Alice in Cartoonland and 52 more about Oswald the Rabbit. At first, each cartoon took eight people one month to make, and sold for only $750, "with the result," says...
...University of Iowa, Jones traveled to the Mississippi backwoods in 1909 and set up a school for Negro children in a district where none had ever existed. A local Negro carpenter gave him a roof by donating some land and fixing up a ramshackle sheep pen on a corner of the property. Today the Piney Woods Country Life School is valued at $500,000, and gives a vocational education to some 500 students a year...
Perlman poked into every corner of the road trying to trim the "belly fat." For example, he walked into a shop in Cleveland unannounced one evening at 9:30 p.m., found "not a man working. They were all in the locker room, although they don't go off work until 11." He shut down the shop. With better use of diesels, he found that he could retire 381 less efficient steam locomotives, leaving only...