Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wire less, Senator and Marchese of Italy, builder of station HVJ, great & good friend of His Holiness, fell to his knees, kissed the papal ring. The Pope was smiling, showed traces of excitement. The Mar chese Marconi and entourage entered the small building over a thick red-and-blue carpet. Whimsically His Holiness threw in switches which set electrical devices in motion; he tapped a wireless key, punched a teletypewriter's keys, proceeded to the transmitting room where from a throne he spoke to All Creation...
Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope...
...Stephen's College, a division of Columbia University, has thrown its hat into the educational ring by announcing that henceforth St. Stephen's will fit a separate curriculum to each individual student. While Harvard and Yale are wrangling over the social side of student life, St. Stephen's and Chicago University are going to bring out a new model of college curriculum. This college in Columbia is casting aside both the old theory of "curriculum for the average student" and the plan of permitting the student to choose his own courses of study. The faculty will have complete control...
...conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
...Dallas, Lugia Montagna (Bull Montana), monster second-rate wrestler, famed because his ogreish face and huge frame have gotten him many cinema jobs, made one John Kilonis so angry in a wrestling match that Kilonis hit Montana with his fist. Montana defended himself, knocked Kilonis across the ring. Referee Cyclone Fox declared Montana winner on a foul. Kilonis took a swing at Cyclone Fox. Montana helped Fox. Spectators jumped into the ring to help Kilonis. More spectators jumped in to help Montana. Riot and pandemonium followed. No one was seriously hurt. Some of Montana's pictures: Show of Shows...