Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composing room of every large newspaper in the land is a tray of type ready to be slapped into the front page at the ring of a telephone. It has been there for years. It is the obituary of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Few weeks ago when aged, ailing Mr. Rockefeller went to Florida, newshawks begged his famed pressagent, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, to help them bring his client's obituary up-to-date. Last week in the swank Lee offices at No. 15 Broad St., Manhattan, the Lee associates went into a hurried conference over an obituary...
...kind, Say When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...
...things to French pancakes that had never been done before, served the kingly dish in a blaze of spirits. Edward's princely palate was pleased; he asked Henri to name the concoction after a friend's little daughter who was lunching with him, sent him next day a jeweled ring, a panama hat, a cane. In the 40 years since then Henri has created many a melting masterpiece of his art. His name, no household word, is one to conjure with in the kitchens of the cognoscenti. Last fortnight he proudly served up his autobiography. The plain English carving...
...stufllng oakum into the Weeks Bridge. The bridge has apparently developed some sort of weakness of the joints, and quantities of oakum are needed to prevent its collapse under the dainty feet of the Cadets. Due to the presence of heating pipes inside, the laborers game of ring around a rosy consists of opening the bridge up completely every morning, working for a short time on the interior, and then carefully closing all apertures in order that the pipes will not catch cold at night...
...member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles in 1910. In those days his cinema-going mother always knew the state of her son's finances by noting whether he appeared on the screen wearing a much-prized diamond ring...