Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Biddle settled on the banks of the Delaware before William Penn. Now Philadelphia lists some 70 in its Social Register. Most famed of Biddies a quarter-century ago was "Tim O'Biddle," ring name of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur boxers of his day. In 1908 he stayed four rounds with "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien. Biddle Sr.'s other great passion was for Christ and somehow mystically he combined the two in a movement called Athletic Christianity. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, he would tell...
...Catholics of Germany, from the Cardinals down to the last priest, wished they knew where Der Führer was last week. Was it with or without his approval that the No. 2 Nazi, Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, had ordered his secret police to eavesdrop at every church and report for later punishment clerics who "falsely employ the authority of their spiritual position for political purposes"-i. e. criticize the Nazi State. "The Church dare not," declared General Göring in his passionate and somewhat incoherent decree, "call upon God against the State-an atrocity that...
...stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During the trial, fiery Bulgarian Dimitroff not only studied German judicial procedure and earned the right to defend himself but hurled it with such withering invective at No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and President of the Reichstag, that the beefy Brownshirt completely lost control of himself, screamed at the stocky Bulgar in court like a madman...
...unabashed lover of tall tales and hard riding, Author Otero remembers seeing a herd of buffalo so large that it was still in sight after a day's train ride. He saw a great part of the West's liquor supply tied up when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely...
...same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make up for his occasional sentimental philosophizing...