Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of shocking murders is being perpetrated in London. Victims all appear to be members of a Scarlet Ring (instead of Mormon Elders), an organization which is liquidating a wholesale theft of jewels from the Imperial Chinese coffers. Victim to pay attention to is No. 3, a certain Captain Pyke. When a body is pulled out of the Thames, his wife (Anna May Wong) identifies it as her husband because of a peculiar ring the corpse is wearing. The diligently-coached Chinese-American actress remarks, in fact, with almost perfect aplomb: "It was an ancient heirloom belonging to my family...
...lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...
...track ran rosy Lord Derby as the crowd cheered. He led Hyperion around the ring, then went to receive the congratulations of the King. Jockey Tommy Weston, bubbling with joy. cried jubilantly: "He's a jolly good horse and ran a jolly good race for a jolly good owner. I am the proudest jockey in the world...
...tire, held his own till the tenth round. Then, overestimating Chocolate's fatigue, he backed away from a clinch with his hands down. Chocolate saw his chance and took it with a left swing at Watson's jaw that sent him rolling into a corner of the ring, left him groggy for the rest of the round...
...down upon his white-fringed pate, Banker Morgan fiddled with a heavy gold watch chain, beamed upon the committee as the show began. At the opening he was permitted to read a prepared statement. For about 15 minutes he read rapidly a definition and defense of private banking. A ring on his finger glinted gold. Only direct allusion to his own company was the fact that he has always been "averse to his partners' holding directorships in other banking institutions but he consents because "the only way people can be helped is the way they wish to be helped...