Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After seven murders in seven days, the Chicago police, unpaid since Jan. 1, commenced last week what their chief called "a sledgehammer campaign" against the city's underworldlings. Detectives and patrolmen scooped up night prowlers, street-corner hoodlums, speakeasy patrons, cabaret "artisteés," "guests" at red-light hotels, many a citizen who could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were...
...what looked like an offside play, Giddens took the puck from Wood near the blue line and, cleverly eluding an opposing defender, flipped in into the right corner of the net. It was an outstanding piece of work by Harvard's Canadian flash, but it put an end to a game of what was for the most part uninteresting hockey...
...celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier's or Santelli's; it was a threat, a joke, a warning, a boast, a congratulation. In his pale face, under a streak of hair, like shiny black paint, his eyes flashed; his mouth tipped up at one corner as though in sympathy with the outstretched left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every great Italian fencer since Italy became a united kingdom (1868) until recent years. At Beppe Nadi's Fencing Academy at Leghorn before the War gathered many adolescent noblemen later killed...
...Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed Anton Boslavage, rolled over on its side...
...Said Lincoln: "First of all, he has a wife and a baby; together they ought to be worth $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.50, and three chairs worth, say, $1. Last of all, there is in one corner a large rathole, which will bear looking into. Respectfully, A. Lincoln...