Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), widow of Enrico Caruso; by Dorothy Russell Calvit. daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell Moore. Mrs. Calvit claimed Mrs. Caruso had a $50,000 diamond & emerald ring of her mother's which the actress entrusted to her husband, the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain. New York State Supreme Court Justice McGeehan instructed Mrs. Caruso to show cause why she should not answer questions concerning the ring...
...manager's point of view. No longer a placidly exaggerated cement-mixer or a down-at-heel and hungry wrestler, he has grown proud of his monstrosity, now regards his own size as the proper one and smiles at the deficiencies of normal-sized persons.* In the ring, he grunts loudly and grimaces, dances lightly on his great feet, lunges quickly with his fists. Out of the ring he dresses in loose, bright-colored clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment or surprise, he was not offended when...
...Columbus judge, Homer Z. Bostwick, 55 and married, had given a $2,300 diamond ring, an automobile and other presents to one Opal Walker, 24. When Opal Walker married another man, Judge Bostwick demanded back his gifts. Opal Walker refused to surrender them, whereupon Judge Bostwick extorted them by having her threatened with imprisonment for perjury because of a technical flaw in her marriage license. The Citizen dug up the story, opened fire on Judge Bostwick. circulated a petition, brought him to trial. The judge's ally, Publisher Harry Preston Wolfe's Columbus Dispatch, accused the Citizen...
...document the contents of which have a rather familiar ring is a petition by the residents of Stoughton Hall "that some measures may be adopted, by which better care may be taken of our rooms." "At present," the petition reads, "the object seems to be to do as little as possible, and in as short a time as possible, and finding that our personal requests and remonstrances have no permanent effect, we adopt this mode of seeking redress...
...with a pistol. In Prospect Park she made Rex R. Fairbanks strip to his underclothes, get out. From one police station to another went Rex R. Fairbanks, in underclothes and hat. unable, for lack of definite police jurisdiction, to find sympathy or help in recovering the money, watch and ring he had lost with his clothes. Finally he went home. In the morning the police wrote him a note: "Sorry for inconvenience you were caused...