Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morley: . . . Floats an instant in the mind like a smoke-ring, then spreads and thins and sifts apart...
When John Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 for his Harper's Ferry raid, Thomas Brigham Bishop happened to be in nearby Martinsburg. Taking paper & pencil he dashed off the crude verses of John Brown's Body Lies a-Mould' ring in the Grave, set them to the music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after...
...sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes. The customers could not help resenting the fact that Baer's night club escapades, his cinema career (The Prizefighter and the Lady), his reluctance to train properly, amounted to a refusal to take seriously the sport of fisticuffing and, by inference, its patrons. The fact that he had won his title in the same ring where he was now about to risk it. and where no championship had ever been...
Stepping up to the loudspeaker in the middle of the ring, the announcer began: "The winnah and new champion-" The rest was extinguished in a mighty shout...
Alibi Ike, considerably adapted, is the Ring Lardner pitcher who could never give a straight question a straight answer. Particularly oblique is Ike when questions bear on his sentiments for Dolly (Olivia de Havilland). It is not the wiles of Crooked Gamblers but depression over a spat with Dolly, who has heard him alibying their engagement, that makes him lose the ball game. Nobody believes him until he steals an ambulance in which his enemies have kidnapped him and gets to the ball park in time to win another...