Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autobiography in Cottier's, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey...
...sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains is a rather soiled sheet with some charcoaled smears. Perhaps not the only thing for the girl next door may hide under her pillow at night the sacred horseshoe nail ring, the talisman of the clan...
Following the arrest of a ring of book thieves in New York who were operating on the University Library and had taken rare books to the amount of $40,000. Library officials report that there has been a noticeable rise in the number of missing books which were secretly returned to the Library...
Nast's battle with Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never...
...Ring was broken. The Boss fled to Spain, a fugitive from justice. He was arrested in Vigo on the charge of "kidnapping two American children." This curious charge was explained by the fact that he was identified by a Spanish policeman from an old Nast cartoon that showed the Boss as a Tammany policeman collaring two small ragamuffins, labeled "Lesser Thieves." The Boss died in New York's Ludlow Street jail. In his luggage was every Nast cartoon ever drawn...