Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stoll of Louisville, Ky. fortnight ago, put the Division of Investigation ("D. O. I.") agents on their mettle. Mrs. Stoll, ill with a cold, was seized shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick...
...Parrott came back in a little while with a brown felt hat. It was much too big for Peter and settled down over his ears. On the Channel steamer he kept asking questions and was finally persuaded to play deck tennis with Tutor Parrott. Mr. Parrott missed the ring a good many times, and seemed distracted. At Paris the train stopped some distance from the station. Heavily guarded by police and still spouting questions, little Peter of Jugoslavia was rushed to the Paris residence of Jugoslavia's Marshal of the Royal Household, while the rest of his party went...
...kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
Last fortnight the Deans received diamond rings from their St. Louis admirers. Penniless five years ago, they expected to make $50,000 from vaudeville and baseball next year. When Vice President Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals congratulated Dizzy Dean on winning the first game last week, Dizzy Dean wired a characteristic reply: "Many, many thanks. . . . Breezed through today with nothing but my glove. . . . Tell everybody hello. Henry Ford will be my guest in St. Louis. . . . Cook a good meal for all of us. Sandwiches and everything." Sportswriters, who gave the Deans their nicknames, were proud of their erratic...
...Miss Renke said she had received no engagement ring from the doctor, but that he showered here with gifts of fruit, candy, flowers, perfume, and a historical medal...