Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
...Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious, it is continuously funny...
...annual University boxing tournament, offering Harvard pugilists their only chance to exhibit their skill at the sport will begin tonight at 8 O'clock at the Hemenway ring. At present 35 men have signed up for the preliminaries; tonight's winners will meet a week from today to determine the titles...
...view of the fact that boxing has recently been made a minor sport the tournament should draw a record crowd, as it is not unlikely that several future team boxers will be in the ring tonight...
...present results of past reforms is theirs now. Would it be ethical, practical, modest or sensible for them to say. "We don't graduate from college for two months more" and in view of this probable development cloister themselves with half a dozen Elizabethan poets while the Senate chambers ring with the banalities of an age that has done its best and lost...