Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less obviously acted than most mystery movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting...
Nevertheless, King Carol last week drew a ring of loyal troops around his palace. Queen Mother Marie asked him, please, to get rid of Lupescu and remarry his divorced wife Helen. The Cabinet formally asked him to send Lupescu away. Lupescu herself, badly frightened, offered to leave Rumania, if that was all his enemies wanted. But Carol assured her confidently that things were not so bad as that. On that one point he was every inch a king: he decreed that indispensable Mile Lupescu must...
Last week, under like circumstances, Rockefeller Center became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin...
...wrote Don Modesto of Madrid, most feared of bullfight critics, after seeing Juan Belmonte for the first time. For the 15 years (1912-27) of Belmonte's ring career all Spain proudly echoed Don Modesto's opinion. Biographer Baerlein goes even further, puts Belmonte on a level with Cervantes and Goya. Readers who liked Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon will want to read this rambling Hispanophile book about Spain's No. 1 modern matador...
...carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family from the poorhouse...