Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France. U. S. sportswriters remembered Blaise Diagne last week as the French Deputy who rose magnificently in the Chamber in 1922 in defense of his compatriot Battling Siki, kinky-haired light heavyweight. M. Siki had just knocked out the then popular Georges Carpentier and had been ruled from the ring by the French Boxing Federation. So eloquently did Deputy Diagne plead that Battling Siki was reinstated, only to be shot dead near a Manhattan speakeasy...
...topped with a tiny spike of head, wrapped his arms around Jim McMillen, U. S. wrestler who once played with Red Grange on Illinois' football team. For 56 minutes, 54 seconds they grunted, sweated, flopped with terrific thuds on the canvas. Once Londos threw McMillen out of the ring. Then McMillen slipped Londos through the ropes. Then both fell down into the press bench, were helped in again, resumed grappling. At last Londos picked up McMillen, slapped him down, rolled him over with a quick half Nelson that won the match and kept one of the world...
...Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them. Leader of the first ring was President Harry Izzicson of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club. Shrewd Harry Izzicson dealt in peddlers' licenses, naturalization papers, newsstand permits, hospital jobs...
...worst evils to which the lecture platform has shown tendencies of succumbing. Any plan which regulates a professor's remuneration by his degree of attractiveness to the student body is inimical to sound instruction. The platform would be strewn with sawdust, and the lecture hall become a circus ring for pedagogic antics. Eminent professors at Harvard have on occasion carried their idealism so far as to request that students refrain from applause at the end of the hour, lest the educator quite humanly give way to the pot-boiling popularizer...
Sharkey v. Dempsey. Jack Dempsey, in an article in The Ring, rated Stribling and Schmeling ahead of Sharkey. Furious, Sharkey issued a trick challenge to Dempsey for a fight "within six weeks." Said Dempsey: "In reply to 'What Is Wrong With the Fight Game?', it is Jack Sharkey of Boston...