Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years...
...past, confident of the future. The beginnings of decline which were evident even then, were ignored by both citizens and government. Those were the great days of William Hale Thompson, Chicago's illustrious mayor. Swept into office on the highly pertinent policy of "America First," he offered a three-ring circus rather than a government. Mr. Capone and his boys had their notoriety, but the spotlight was the mayor's whenever he wanted it. His character interpreted the momentary character of the city, and if the finances went to pieces in the meantime, he was still a sufficient symbol. When...
...none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...
...Philadelphia") Jack O'Brien, old-time light-heavyweight champion, gymnasium proprietor, was announced as violin soloist at a concert of the New York Schools of Music, Jan. 23, in Manhattan. After his retirement from the ring...
...mummy's stomach lay a ring marked...