Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respect for anything." Secretary de Boe sometimes paid out her own funds for her employer's liquor. At frequent intervals she brightened the famed red shade of her employer's hair. Miss Bow, she said, liked to play poker six nights a week, generously bought watches, rings for her men friends, of whom Miss de Boe mentioned five - Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Harry Richman, Dr. Earl Pierson, Rex Bell and ''so many it's hard to remember them all. ... I had to dress her . . . buy her gowns, and keep them off the floor where...
...alone. Out of all these patents, two main systems have evolved, the step-by-step and the panel.* The telephone subscriber cannot tell the two systems apart; the dials and the act of dialing look identical. But in the step-by-step system the mechanical combination necessary to ring the desired number is built up directly, by separate impulses from the dial. In the panel system, a more complicated mechanism (in panels) receives, interprets and sets up the proper electrical impulses...
Many have been outside protests against the iron ring of military alliances which France has forged around herself. But almost the first protest from within the iron ring was heard last week in Brussels. To assembled reporters Emile Vandervelde, Socialist leader, onetime Foreign Minister (1925-27), announced...
Futurist Marinetti's recipe for carneplastico, "an original dish suggesting the Italian landscape": Surround a tall up right cylinder of minced veal stuffed with eleven vegetables by a ring of sausages draped between large balls of minced chicken. Crown the whole with golden honey...
...fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each other's salvation. In addition to other faults there is far too much talk in the picture and both principals are ludicrously miscast. These are the most serious roles Farrell & Gaynor have ever tried...