Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week you published an article about how a New York newspaper woman [Rachel McDowell of the New York Times] knelt at the feet of the Pope and kissed his ring [TIME, Sept. 23]. She touched the Pope's hand, let the touch linger, and said she wished she would never have to wash her hand again (ugh!) And she had hysterics! And boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty...
...were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard...
Bruised and shaky, with a huge black ring around one eye, Fisticuffer Max Baer had a haircut, a shave and manicure, commiserated with his 238-lb. brother Buddy Baer, who had lost a decision to a Montana heavyweight named Ford Smith right after the big fight.* He wished Louis luck, announced that he would retire to raise white-faced cattle on his California ranch...
...Other press names for Louis: Brown Bomber, Ring Robot, Alabama Assassin, Dead-Pan Joe, Sepia Slasher, Dark Angel, Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Wildcat Warrior...
...looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made it a snappish, treacherous fashion-plate fit for nothing but mincing around a show ring. One morning last week Trainer Michael Kennedy took Champion Lucason out to groom him for a show at Englewood next day. Mrs. Ilch houses her 60-odd collies Beside the North Shrewsbury River. While he was brushing the dog, Trainer Kennedy heard a cry, saw a small...