Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg tossed his hat into the Presidential ring this week with characteristic aplomb, assenting to "whatever responsibilities lie ahead." So doing he suggested all aspirants pledge themselves not to seek more than one term...
...weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck...
...label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson's new album of the Songs of Brahms and found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto Rhapsody which is built around episodes in the lonely Hartz Mountains in Germany. Miss Anderson makes the stark tonality of the song ring long after the record is over. Indeed, one can find much to compare in the after effect of the Anderson and the Holiday records. They are sincere versions of different types of music, overshadowed by the tragedy evident in each. Byron said, "To be an artist, one must have lived...
...Owensboro, Ky., and George E. Deatherage, a St. Albans, W. Va., house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army's Fourth Corps Area last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that...
...difference between James Aloysius Farley and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as politicians is precisely the difference between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling...