Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom Ring (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Latest Hollywood discovery in box-office lures is the value of Americanism. Flag-waving of the George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
...House of Lowell was blessed with a carillon, an authentic Russian Zvon from Moscow. And with the Zvon came Saradjeff, the official Zvonar from the Soviet Government, commissioned to ring the Zvon and impart his knowledge to the barbarians of Harvard. All would have been well if Saradjeff bad not had a sensitive Russian Soul, unaccustomed to the complex chaos of America. To this chaos was added the horrible fact that few Americans spoke Russian and Saradjeff spoke no English...
...round out the series of warnings to totalitarian nations that John Bull's full-sized helmet was ready to go in the ring, Prime Minister Chamberlain, in a speech in Lancashire, delved into Shakespeare's King John, pulled out this quotation...
...well that he sent her a bouquet of lilacs and carnations. Last week her Merry Widow so pleased the Führer & party that their prolonged applause almost stopped the show. After the performance, the cast and Dancer Daniels put on a special act for Herren Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and guests at a Munich night club...
...Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena one night last week the smoke curdled in a cone of hot light above the ring, the crowd yelled, the gong clanged and the boys in the fourth bout bobbed out of their corners. Probably nobody there was reminded of George Bellows' prizefight pictures except one of the boys, Tony Sisti from Buffalo. Tony, who had been out of the ring nearly nine years, was staging a comeback. Its purpose, which tickled the sportswriters: to finance his own art exhibition this week at Manhattan's Argent Galleries...