Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...
...busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello had signed his name to the roster of Professor John Dewey...
...special Mayoral election, after McKee had served 16 weeks as Acting Mayor following James John ("Jimmy") Walker's flight from City Hall (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932). Now, having retired from politics, having refused the Fusion nomination which went to onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, McKee entered the ring under an independent Democratic banner, as the "Recovery" candidate. There were two explanations offered for Joe McKee's decision to run for Mayor. The World-Telegram, Scripps-Howard crusader which had sponsored the write-in movement for him a year ago, turned bitterly against its former champion, denounced...
...Saito from old days in Korea. As the Welches were staying at my house I was included in the invitation and that is why I happen to know personally the details connected with this dinner party. While we were waiting to go out to dinner-a bell began to ring in the drawing room and kept right on ringing. Finally the Premier's son stuffed his handkerchief in behind the bell to silence it. None of us had any idea what the bell meant. We thought it was a telephone bell out of order. But of course the Premier...
...contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne had a piece about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate guzzling at Princeton. There were stories by John Dos Passos, William McFee, Manuel Komroff, Morley Callaghan, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vincent Starrett. Bobby Jones, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Charley Paddock wrote about sports. There were cartoons by Alajalov, John Groth, Steig...