Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy McLarnin, Irish welterweight who wears a harp on his bathrobe, turns handsprings in the ring whenever he gets a decision, scorns any bout that brings him less than $20,000: a decision in Madison Square Garden from Negro Young Jack Thompson, in spite of the fact that Thompson had won six out of the ten rounds and that McLarnin had repeatedly been warned for hitting...
...Buenos Aires, terrified sextons, devout churchgoers, and two policemen found Guido Francveschini in the belfry of the church of Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires. Lying on his back, with bell ropes tied to his feet, he was waving his legs in the air to ring the bells...
Asked how he dared ring bells in such a fashion, Guido Francveschini jumped up, explained that his arms had grown tired. Said he: "I really don't know why I am ringing the bells. No one seems to understand me. I am a devout man and believe in God. Bells were made to ring-to ring forever. When I was a child it used to make me very happy to hear the bells ringing on Sunday...
Guido Francveschini then began to ring the chimes. He was removed to a lunatic asylum...
...children, learned to be a floor-finisher but did not like the work. Four years ago he got a job sweeping out Jimmy Coster's gym in Philadelphia. He started to fight, changed his name to Midget Wolgast. Last week in Madison Square Garden he climbed into a ring and sat down facing a little Negro laconically known as Black Bill, the other finalist in a tournament conducted to decide the flyweight championship of New York and Philadelphia...