Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week in Boston, Charles Roswell Donnell, a 6-ft.1-in., 220-lb. policeman, climbed into a ring to referee a wrestling bout between onetime Heavyweight Champions Ed Don George and Jim Browning. Browning won the first fall. In the second round he got a scissors hold on George. Referee Donnell tried to step between the wrestlers to save them from going through the ropes. Browning wrapped his arms around Donnell's neck and the next instant wrestlers and referee plunked down on the cement floor. Donnell landed at the bottom. Spectators untangled them, found Donnell unconscious with concussion...
Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample...
Although such a suggestion has in these days a quaint Victorian ring, there is possibly a question of courtesy as well as of competence. Professors do not as a rule refer publicly to CRIMSON editors or other students by name as slovenly and illiterate, whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Meters, 3.40 o'clock . Italian Entries: Mario Rabaglino, Umberto Ridi. American Entries: Ivan Fuqua, Indiana; Tim Ring, H. C.; Don McGuigan...
...Meters Relay: Tim Ring, Holy Cross; Larry Scanlon, Holy Cross; Joseph Murphy, Holy Cross, Ivan Fuqua, Indiana...