Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Born in a log cabin, he lost his father at the age of three. His mother, an illiterate woman, carried him to Campbell, Minn, at the age of six. At nine he went to work on the streets. At twelve he could neither read nor write. A corner brawl caught the attention of a passing schoolteacher who was impressed by the lad's ferocity and ignorance, advised education. He entered school, moving from town to town with his toiling mother, gathered and sold junk to make ends meet. He put himself through the University of Minnesota...
...afternoon last week two well-known Yazooans stood talking near the corner of Jefferson and Main, in front of the flyspecked window of Nector's Restaurant, where the town's bachelors go to drink their breakfast Coca-Cola. One was Mayor John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly...
Taunted by Mrs. McCormick to explain his friendship with such a character, Senator Deneen lately made a speech in a remote corner of the state in which he almost wept over Esposito's slaying, eulogized him as a fine and valiant citizen who had died in the "cause." To help prove what a splendid character he was, Senator Deneen cited the fact that 19,000 roses, costing $10,000, had been strewn along the ten-mile funeral route. Mrs. McCormick's secret stenographer took down that speech. Few are the Illinois voters who do not now know about...
...long, wavering line-41 horses, with their boys in colored silks-broke suddenly and swept forward toward the first jump. They were over safely, hard to see against a patch of mist that touched the corner of the course. At Valentine's Brook, Sir Lindsay, John Hay Whitney's horse, was over first, with Shaun Goilin (pronounced Shahn Goy-lin), right after him. At the open ditch, Gate Book went down and Gregalach, one of the favorites since Easter Hero was scratched, screwed sideways in the air, landed clear but had to be pulled up. He was down...
...shortstop, and H. L. Huxtable '30 at third. The second infield yesterday was composed of W. B. Wood Jr. '32 at the initial sack, J. J. Carver '30 at second base assisted by J. J. O' Neil '30 at shortstop, with E. J. Des Roches '31 covering the hot corner...