Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight hour approached excitement crept into the voices of the telephone girls who tell you the correct time. "Happy New Year," we said when one of them finally announced 12 o'clock. "Thanks," she said, "and a Happy New Year to you." Bells began to ring, whistles to toot and three happy drunks came tripping up Mount Auburn Street singing "The Music Goes Round and Round." We went...
Amid the dead silence of a massed throng which pack-jammed the enormous square and all side streets. Queen Elena opened her velvet handbag, extracted with visible emotion her gold wedding ring and the King's, dropped them into a large bronze urn. An Archbishop advanced and blessed two iron rings lying on a red velvet cushion while Her Majesty knelt with lips moving in silent prayer...
...Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings...
...unflattering yellow hair, turned to her agent to ask: "What does the little lady do? What sort of parts does she play? Mmmmm. Well, leave the little lady's name and address and if anything comes up that she might fit into I'll give her a ring." He never...
...subservience to his steel-jacketed wife, fell in love with her. So did his lawyer pal, Derry. Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves: the book ends with Ishma in her prison cell hearing the thunder of proletarian feet rushing to release...