Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sticking out his posterior, lowering his head belligerently, Max Baer,* California heavyweight, possessor of a 16-cylinder car, confident manners and many suits of flashy clothes, charged out of his corner in Madison Square Garden last week and began to lambaste the ribs and features of Ernie Schaaf† of Elizabeth, N. J. Schaaf backed away and countered. In Schaaf's corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell...
...Thanks to your review I purchased and read the book and to my mind it is just about THE best thing out. It seems to me that Mr. Lavine justly deserves a corner in your magazine for his picture. I for one would like to see what he looks like...
James A. Reed, longtime (1911-29) Senator from Missouri, invested $100,000 in the corner of 16th and Main Streets, Kansas City...
...home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...
From 75,000 people-reputedly the biggest crowd that ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle...