Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the field day began. It continued for four days in the form of a five-ring circus, one in the Department of Commerce Building and others in various hotels around Washington. Inasmuch as the General's dozen points for bettering the codes promised to make "fair rules" on almost every conceivable type of error, the complainers were hardly able to take him off his guard. Some typical complaints...
...Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted and beheaded.) In haste and secrecy the three were hustled to a plane at Berlin's Tempelhof Field. In two long hops they were out of Nazi Germany and Göring's reach and into Communist Moscow arid the midst of a cheering mob, speechmaking officials and holiday rockets...
...Robert Riggs lithographs now on exhibition at the Grace Horn Galleries are good examples of the work of the man generally considered to be Claude Bellow's most able successor. Concerning themselves solely with the prize ring, the ten lithographs form an excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
When the alarm rings at night; in addition to opening the doors and changing the lights, it turns on all the lights, it turns on all the lights inside the station. This is accomplished by an inside alarm system which arouses the sleeping fire-fighters. But the firemen are not awakened without sufficient reason, for a selective device refuses to allow the inside alarm to ring unless the call comes from within the district covered by the Central Fire Station...