Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Crimson heavyweights scored knockouts. After Arthur Oakes and Waldemar Wysocki and disposed of their opponents in the first round of the 155 and 165-pound classes, Hamlin Turner stepped into the ring and threw two rights. The first was wild; the second connected, and the referee stopped the fight...
German wags tell that once, arm in arm, Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Paul Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler strolled for half an hour on Unter den Linden. Nobody recognized them because Herr Göring was in civilian clothes, Herr Goebbels did not open his mouth, Herr Hitler had his hair brushed...
...matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics. It was not Mr. Will Shakespeare's fault that Mr. Tunney, after he had retired from the ring with his million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than a flickering light on the puzzling questions he cheerfully mopes over, there is sometimes a reassuring enthusiasm in his incoherence: "You have to be an American to understand the Americans...
Improbable, earnest and exciting, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is improved by Claude Rains' spectacular overacting and weakened by the notion it embodies that a strange munitions ring, meeting on a yacht, was entirely responsible...
...proceeds during the life of a machine. A good machine may last six months. After that it loses its popularity, and the professionals begin to get on to it. The operator carts it away and comes back with another variation of the pin game-baseball, football, trains, games that ring bells or make pellets jump...