Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler was making progress in his chambers on the Wilhelmstrasse toward solution of the strife between Reichsbischof Ludwig Miller and the 7,000 Emergency Lutheran Pastors when in stormed General GÖring...
...come as Chief of the Police of Prussia!" he shouted, banging the Chancellor's door behind him. What more General GÖring said remained an exciting secret last week, but he was understood to have urged use of the full power of Prussia's police and Storm Troops to "break" pastors who do not conform to Nazification of the Church...
...Olympic Auditorium. Each had scored a fall when Referee Mickey McMasters looked at the clock. It was 11:15, the hour the California Athletic Commission had ordered all wrestling bouts to end. The referee tapped both men's shoulders to signify a draw, sent them from the ring...
Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...