Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed. Comatose spectators booed, clapped for action. Once Genaro, swinging a right, missed and fell down. It was the only down of the fight. When it was over one judge voted for Wolgast, one for Genaro; the referee called it a draw. Lustily reviled, the two champions left the ring, still champions...
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...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...
...Ring of the Löwenskölds (pronounced "Levenskelds") is a trilogy, but its three novels are all self-contained. The first two-The General's Ring and Charlotte Löwensköld-have already been published; the new one, Anna Svärd, finishes the story of Karl Arthur Ekenstedt and Charlotte, the girl he was too proud to marry...
...Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel the best has been made of a universally bad bargain. The Ring of the Löwenskölds is the Literary Guild choice for January...