Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring her luck...
Vice President Curtis was conducting the same sort of smalltown, one-ring-circus tour as four years ago. As in 1928 he floored his audiences with oratorical extravagances, staggered them with tariff statistics, lost his temper when heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead...
...recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker's famed "Hat in the Ring Squadron." Captain Edward C. Corsi had been a chasse pilot for France. Several had served with Britain's Royal Flying Corps. The Polish unit with which they were merged was commanded by Germany's Wartime chief of air forces in Turkey, Col. Ludomil Rayski, now head of Poland...
...toughest little bulldog in the ring is 174½-lb. Mickey Walker who started his career as a welterweight, won welterweight and middleweight championships, then became a heavyweight and fought Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey to a draw a year ago. Matched against Walker for the reward of a return fight against Sharkey last week was amiable, capable Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling, heavyweight champion until Sharkey won the title on a disputed decision last summer. As Advertised
...story of his life runs along with the speed of a prizefight from the University of Denver to Yale to the Harvard Law School to Oxford with the major interest ever on the boxing ring. One is always conscious of the somewhat loveable big-boy who is the author. The whole book is virile and thoroughly masculine, even when the author describes an evening spent with a group of "aesthetes" at Christ Church College where he war greeted with a lily. And always American, he does not escape that particularly American kind of snobism about titles. When he boasts that...