Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect by bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with the stinging words: "Dummkopf! dunderhead! you are too stupid...
Strutting General Göring said he had received the following...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...
...pistol cracked. Up went the wire around the turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line...
...fell in love with her. But Pilar's saintliness was too much for them: when Juan realized that she was as impregnable as his father's purpose he ran off with renegade Miguel to be a Communist. Pepe, burnt out by night life, was killed in the ring. Don José's carnal love for Pilár cooled into paternal affection. He settled down philosophically in the country with his spiritual daughter, turned slowly from a lusty old rascal into a nice...