Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peeved little boy. And like any severely spanked little boy, wanting sympathy, he took the colossal modern manner of calling attention to his troubles. That he should carry out his grand gesture, is the fault of the City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations to all and sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Even here he executes a nimble prize-ring shuffle while ducking a punch aimed at his head by his rival for the attentions of demure Maureen O'Sullivan...
...story of The Crowd Roars- otherwise chiefly notable because the hero does not win a championship-ringwise cinemaddicts will detect interesting similarities to the careers of two famed contemporary fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers...
Elephantine Wrestler Frank S. Leavitt (Man Mountain Dean) withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the lower house of the Georgia Legislature. Said he: "When a wrestler gets personal in the ring, I let him have one right on the jaw. . . . If I stay in politics, I'll slug somebody sure...