Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fights or the main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail if he feels inclined. Fighting cocks wear over their natural spurs either "gaffs"-fine-pointed needles...
...first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed him on the ring floor so suddenly that he forgot to stay down for a count of nine...
...fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver in 1898. A year later Tabor died, after advising his wife never to let go his last silver mine...
Seats which absorb sound in the same degree as a clothed human body, thus assuring no empty auditorium ring if they are empty...
...Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches...