Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey the favorite. Sharkey weighed 198 lb., Walker, a little heavier than had been expected...
Openly contemptuous, Sharkey had trained carelessly for the fight but he was careful in the ring. In the first round or two, he sparred cautiously down at little Walker, who strained up at him like a bulldog on its hind-legs at the end of a leash. Sharkey aimed long lefts at Walker's eyes, opened a cut over the left eye in the fifth round...
...Manhattan, Hattie Brown, 25, a housemaid, gulped when questioned about a ring stolen from her mistress. An X-ray picture revealed the ring in her stomach...
...statements. When their oldest daughter died last March he did not say: "See what you get for breaking up a home," but: "This is what we deserve for a broken home." He did not tell one of the children that "her mother would sell her wedding ring." Rather, the child came to him and said: "Daddy, I believe mother has sold her wedding ring...
...young to have accreted traditions as rich as the sea's, the air has evolved a few rites of its own. One is the quick dip of salute by a plane in flight, another the wing-wag of greeting, another the ring-laying ceremony for a new dirigible (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Picturesque is still another -the christening of a new balloon with liquid air. As in the case of the Graf Zeppelin and many smaller craft, it was planned that the Navy's great Akron should be named to the accompaniment of a flask smashed against...