Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day was Friday, the Moslem sabbath. To a mosque jammed with zealots the priest raged against "accursed Christians and the adoption of their vile habits by some Persian women." With the tirade at its height, suddenly the congregation was startled by the ring of spurs on the stone mosque floor...
...gave the answer last week in Old Bailey, or rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About to break last week was a swindle story which U. S. Department of Justice operatives in Chicago and Philadelphia said will reveal a "monster ring of British swindlers" led by Chicago's dapper John ("Jake the Barber") Factor. According to the Secret Service, Mr. Factor, operating with British associates in London and at Le Touquet, has fleeced numerous prominent Britons, including Edward of Wales, out of no less than $7,000,000. To Department...
Luigi Fernandi, owner of the lion (name: Prince), thought that was well enough. When the bloodthirsty crowd yelled for more spectacle, he demurred. He was arrested and Prince was returned to the ring. As Prince leaped again to meet the bull's charge, a horn impaled him, killed him, to the huge delight of the San Luis Potosians...
...that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...
...will be given July 21, Aug. i, Aug. 5, Aug. 8, Aug. 17 under Arturo Toscanini. Parsifal, also under Toscanini, will be given July 22, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Aug. 9, Aug. 19. Tristan und Isolde will be conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler July 23, Aug. 3, Aug. 18. The Ring under Karl Elmendorff will be given twice?July...