Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry of Gloucester bought his fiancée, Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott a platinum engagement ring with a sapphire between two diamonds for $925 from Garrards in Albermarle Street, also a platinum wedding ring...
...Cleveland, Angela Demoa, 18, bought a wedding ring, a trousseau, filled her car with gasoline, hired two armed thugs. They forced her bashful fiancé, Frank Genovese, from a theatre at pistol point with the whispered admonition: "We've got the heat on you," drove him 113 miles to Ripley, N. Y., where Angela Demoa married...
...punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...
Half a century later Phi Beta Kappa gave up its secrets to become a national honorary scholastic society. Only the first part of the salute, a handshake with the ring and little fingers folded back in the palm of the hand, remained as an induction ceremony. Soon there was no living person who knew what followed the handshake in the original salute...
...Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair...