Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro musical shows, also require "de Lawd's'' financial assistance. Harrison lost money when the Binga State Bank of Chicago failed. But he has a solid investment in two Chicago Black Belt houses. He also has satisfied a lifelong vanity by buying a big diamond ring...
Critic. What U. S. dairymen need are not fancy animals but any sort of cow that gives high quantities of good milk. The two, says Critic Prentice, are not necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their...
...armor collectors gathered last week, munching chicken sandwiches and sipping highballs, watched Kenneth Lynch in a dinner-jacket and his craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...
...Irish seem a sentimental race, but they are hard underneath. Author O'Hara is rapidly qualifying himself for hard-boiled champion of the year. As straight a reporter of U. S. dialect as the late great Ring Lardner and straighter than Hemingway, he writes without bitterness, without pity. The effect is unpleasant but cruelly true to U. S. life. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (TIME, Aug. 20), offended many a reader, excited many a critic. This collection of sketches and short stories will raise the same echo...