Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason I wrote you was I wanted to tell you what I think of these bells they keep ringing all the time. Mr. Editor, I ain't heard nothing like it since I was a boy on the farm. That was down in Maine, though. Anyway, these bells seem to ring whenever I feel like lying down and taking a nap. And they are a nuisance, sir, a public nuisance. I want you to print this letter in your newspaper and maybe that will do something to stop this confounded dingle-dangle for thats all it is. Truly 'yours.' "Veteran...
...till this point the Vagabond realizes he has been engaged in purely destructive criticism. What to do about it? Well, he remembers, in his youth, a picture entitled "Curfew Shall not Ring To-Night", showing a beautiful maiden clinging to the clapper of a large church bell. On nights when the Lowell bells threaten to ring the authorities might send over to Radcliffe for nineteen beautiful maidens--but then this suggestion, too, seems to present some peculiar difficulties...
...lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, which was the most hilarious of the 1929-30 Manhattan season. The wisecracks of a cynical pianist suffer slightly in not being rendered by Harry Rosenthal, who created the role. The song publisher's mistress is played a little too broadly by June MacCloy. Most...
...expert at rowing, but I can readily see the nautical three ring circus that would be created if Mr. Foster's ideas were put into effect:-- "As later determined, the committee will select from the men in standing position, as well as seated in the shell, from time to time a certain number for elimination. Hats off to those eliminated men." Now, I ask you, must our oarsmen become tight-rope walkers and Washington crossing the Delaware...
...Canary Islanders in 1731. He conducted a pontifical high mass on the Military Plaza behind San Fernando Cathedral. Down amongst the 15,000 worshippers crashed a heavy palm frond but, perhaps miraculously, only six people were slightly injured. Hundreds of the faithful came to kiss the cardinal's ring, receive his blessing...