Corkran

"Bring me what you call Corkran's note-of-hand, and be thankful that I do not carry the matter any further.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

CHERNOFF: Today, Goldworth is back at the Corkran (ph) Group in Manhattan, grateful to be selling homes again.

CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009 2009

Today Corkran was expecting to lunch very privately, not to say magnificently, in Westminster.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Corkran made a pretense of looking at a folder on his desk, as if to refresh his memory.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

When Morty had described “Elsie” Corkran as commonplace close to but distinctive from a distance he had been remarkably shrewd, for across a desk the face suggested an officer who had served his country without achieving either seniority or character, whereas at twenty paces his precise white moustache and curling hair conveyed that he might be a doyen of diplomats or a Major General of cavalry.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Today Corkran was expecting to lunch very privately, not to say magnificently, in Westminster.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

When Morty had described “Elsie” Corkran as commonplace close to but distinctive from a distance he had been remarkably shrewd, for across a desk the face suggested an officer who had served his country without achieving either seniority or character, whereas at twenty paces his precise white moustache and curling hair conveyed that he might be a doyen of diplomats or a Major General of cavalry.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Corkran made a pretense of looking at a folder on his desk, as if to refresh his memory.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Corkran of the Clamstretch (_Scribner's_, December).

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

The money is stopped from your pocket-money, Corkran.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900