Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent letter in these columns contained a very entraining argument: If they want us to eat with congenial people, why I' God's name do they want us to eat in the House? Very fair, but let's join in a ring-around-the-rosie with the High Table in the centre and sing some chant to remind ourselves that the House provides not only showers, not only it braries, but also congenial friends. That's the purpose of it. One suggestion has been that people may charge their meals in any House. If these are to be charged...
Other magazines have likewise fallen from popularity because the times have passed them by. In the eighties, "Harper's Weekly" crusaded almost single-handed against the pioneer racketeers of the Tweed Ring and won its fight by the efforts of the cartoonist Thomas Nast. And in the turbulent days of the Roosevelt campaigns, its drawings by Kemble crystallized the opinion of the opposition. But because "Harper's" could not remake its pages in the image of Baron Steiehen or Covarrubias...
Plan No. 4 had a familiar ring. Sick industries, like oil, shipping and agriculture, eventually seek some sort of Government regulation. Hale industries fight it. Declaring coal a public utility so that...
Louder, Please. So well has Playwright Norman Krasna, onetime office boy for the defunct New York Sunday World, observed the greased-lightning satires of Ring Lardner, George S. Kaufman and Charles MacArthur that none of these practitioners should be ashamed to set their names to Louder, Please. It is a good imitation of the sort of thing that blasted audiences out of their seats several seasons back when Lee Tracy, he of the sunken cheeks, long legs and yellow hair, was romping through Broadway and The Front Page. Happily the services of Actor Tracy have been secured for Louder, Please...
...across the face, then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this mistreatment does not discourage little Cooper. Presently he is back, muttering, "Aw gee!" with sniveling, or sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring in a torn bathrobe, defeats what is supposed to be a first-class boxer in a struggle which will seem a little absurd to anyone who has ever seen a prizefight. After the fight, he has heart-failure; little Cooper's underlip comes out again...