Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses Newton Diehl Baker was "the most probable nominee" if Smith stopped Roosevelt. Last week Mr. Baker, attending his daughter's graduation from Sarah Lawrence college at Bronxville, N. Y. where he delivered the commencement address, declared: "I'm not a candidate. My hat is as far from the ring as it ever...
...attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells his second. Then he knocks out his opponent, races to the pier in his bathrobe, delivers another knockout. When last seen, he is being reconciled with a previous sweetheart (Marian Nixon) brought to see him by his manager (Guy Kibbee...
...Form Prize-winner at Groton was Tudor Gardiner, son of Maine's Governor William Tudor Gardiner. At Andover Ring W. Lardner Jr., son of the taciturn humorist, won two English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale. From Princeton were graduated (with high honors in modern languages) Mark Sullivan Jr., son of the political writer and (with high honors in art & archaeology) William Watt Blanton, son of Texas' Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton. From Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) was graduated Francis R., son of Tammany Leader John Francis...
...groomed in the art of football. To explain baseball with examples and laboratory demonstrations in the aisle, is father's privilege, and yesterday he made the most of it. Crew once afforded father an added opportunity to take the head of the family, but now that Vassar breakfast tables ring with chatter about track and rowing, baseball remains without doubt the only field in which the male parent can be sure of himself in the company of his offspring...
...movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike company now has the effrontery to tell the American people that inhalation of their weed is free from the harmful effects...