Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop to the endless rise in taxes, taking more and more of the family income to support an overgrown Washington bureaucracy. They wanted something done about inflation-to end the growing discouragement, as, day by day, pensions and savings and the weekly paycheck bought less and less at the corner store. Americans were determined to eliminate penetration by the Communist conspiracy in our Government and in our whole society. They did not consider it a red herring...
...series of panels with text written by Mark Van Doren, illustrating and interpreting "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof." Typically only once in the 60 panel exhibit does the name Columbia appear, and that is on the title card down in the right hand corner, stating briefly that the collection has been "arranged by Columbia on the occasion of its Bicentennial." Appeal has been made not to potentially susceptible and prosperous businessmen but to other educational institutions, and the appeal has not been wasted. The set of panels has been seen in universities, libraries, and museums...
They rounded the corner, stealthily advancing on the girls' dormitories. Suddenly, on the bridge ahead, there appeared the figure of a single policeman, outlined against the dawn. 'Where do you think you guys are going?" he barked. Nobody heard, or at least nobody listened, for they continued to advance. Finally, frustrated by the incongruity of 170 red-coated, instrument-bearing Harvard bandsmen, marching irresistably in the early light, the Cornell policeman yielded, "There's over a hundred of you, and only one of me," he admitted dourly. "I can't stop...
...sense of humor is as graphic as an otter's. One day a woman columnist walked up to him and said in a sugary voice: "Why, you look like everybody else!" Marlon stared at her for a moment in silence, then turned without a word to the nearest corner and stood on his head...
...made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply as a step from nothing to something...