Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treasury looked around at a ring of smiling faces including those of two former Secretaries of the Treasury, Carter Glass and William G. McAdoo...
...Laval left Moscow, arrived at Warsaw to represent France at the funeral services for the late great Marshal Pilsudski, who had been rated Germany's best friend in Poland (see p. 23). There transpired the amazing scene of Germany's pompous Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring trotting after Laval. He would, he hinted, like to talk. Woodchuckish M. Laval pretended not to understand. General Göring then politely requested a conversation, which M. Laval granted at the Air Minister's hotel, for three hours. Loquacious Göring had nothing...
With vigorous Chief Jay N. ("Ding") Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey alarmed at the dwindling U. S. supply of wild duck, his agents have lately redoubled their efforts to smash the 'legging ring. They have got no help from natives. Eastern Shore merchants are notoriously incurious about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed...
When Canzoneri and Ambers climbed into the ring last week Ambers was a 3-to-1 favorite, partly on the superstition that a champion who loses his title rarely wins it back, partly because Canzoneri, eight years older than his opponent, has indubitably lost some of his old enthusiasm for absorbing punches. When they climbed out, after 15 busy rounds, Canzoneri had knocked Ambers down three times, had become the first lightweight pugilist in history to win the championship after being defeated in defense of it. Said he: "I think Ambers remembered the sparring partner days and that affected...
...SAINT GOES ON-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). In his best form, Simon Templar twinkles, cuts and shoots his way through three more adventures, involving a ring of jewel thieves, an admiring Peer, a damsel in distress...