Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...
From Columbia, South Carolina, comes the report that Peter Moody, college sophomore who revealed the miserable working conditions among the mill-workers in a recent article, has been ordered examined by a psychiatrist. The Carolina House of Representatives has struck back, and in the language of the ring, struck below the belt...
Meanwhile in West Orange, N. J. a woman preparing to address her club on Peace memorized parts of the Lewis essay. Certain phrases had a familiar ring. Looking back through earlier research she came upon an article in the December Peace Di gest by President Frank Kingdon of the University of Newark. She compared the prize-winning essay with the Kingdon arti cle, found them identical. Dr. Kingdon was notified, tried to reach Eddie Cantor before he started his weekly broadcast, failed. He hastened to spill his news to a friend on the staff of the Newark Evening News...
...efforts to do so started in disgraceful failure. In the first big match he staged, Paulino Uzcudun knocked out an overrated Canadian named Soldier Jones in two minutes. To rehabilitate himself Promoter Dickson put Paulino into the ring against an English fighter named Harry Drake. Boxer Drake was so terrified at the sight of his bronzed opponent from the Pyrenees that it took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine...
...Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified. It was made known last week that the Pope would not celebrate Easter Mass in St. Peter...