Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an expression of trepidation and constraint, Phil Scott, so-called heavyweight champion of England, got into a ring in Miami and sat down on a stool while his manager laced up his gloves. In the opposite corner Jack Sharkey, American contender, scowled ferociously and worked his gum-protector around in his mouth. It was a moment which had been preceded by weeks of intensive but not enthusiastic ballyhoo. Scott had looked very bad in training. Slow and clumsy, he had been upset several times by mediocre sparring partners. Sharkey, in fine condition, had been working as though every sparring...
Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...
...matter of fact. I don't think boxing is nearly as brutal as many people think. The trouble is that in the fighting ring whenever a man's lips start to bleed, his opponent's glove spreads the stain all over his body, with the result that he looks like a slaughter house. Then the women throw up their hands in horror and say that boxing is a brutal sport, even at that they seem to be getting over the feeling a little...
...them it matters little when conductors freely snip great passages. Only critics and a small minority call such cutting desecration. Yet for them last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung...
...With the exception of Das Rheingold, two-hour introductory opera to the Ring, which begins at 5 o'clock, is given without pause...