Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
...whole day-not to have to cope! I am able to cope, and one has to in this country; but I get tired of it, sometimes. I am not a born coper, like Evangeline; I have had to learn to do it." Only too often she has to ring the buzzer for Mrs. Gonzales or send for Max; it is very wearing. Once they came and told her that Kitty was acting very funny. " 'Oh, where?' I asked plaintively. I didn't want to cope." But she did: she watched Kitty have a fit, finally...
...fellow-hobo, a beautiful girl who gave him a horror of the second-rate, turned him from an art student to a hospital orderly. Gradually Uan became Americanized; his name slipped from Uan Koé to John Coe. When last seen he was doing well in the prize ring, with the beautiful girl not far in the offing...
...dancers met their greatest obstacles in Mexico City. Fleabites notwithstanding, they inaugurated the magnificent new Palacio de Bellas Artes. Because no one knew how to operate its elaborate lighting system, a "spot" had to be borrowed from a nearby cinema house. Later when the Company danced in the bull ring, rain wilted their tarlatan skirts...
...years ago, Light Heavyweight Champion Tommy Loughran thrashed a hopeful but clumsy young contender for his title named James J. Braddock. That beating, most people thought, would end a career in the ring for which Braddock's aptitude had never seemed particularly marked. But Fisticuffer Braddock continued to fight any opponents he could get. Putting on weight as he grew older, he graduated from a first-rate light heavyweight into a second-rate heavyweight. A few surprising victories over highly touted prospects like "Tuffy"' Griffiths and John Henry Lewis did him more harm than good by making managers...