Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King has always acted so as to give fullest scope to the energy and talents of II Duce, who has always acted with the greatest respect for Vittorio Emanuele III. Not long ago a Fascist official told of having suggested on a certain point that the Premier simply ring up the King by telephone, told of Il Duce's reproving reply: "Such lack of respect is not to be shown His Majesty! Audience must always be sought in advance." Last week Italy's reigning King-Emperor and her ruling Dictator joined in visibly correcting what has become outside...
...Cornell eight which Tom Bolles has characterized as "always a good crew" tossed its hat into the championship ring by coming within 10 feet of Navy, Coach Walsh's Middies proved to be the Crimson nemesis last season, and with practically the same crew intact this year they may well upset Harvard on the Severn...
...money holdings in Germany are estimated at $2.000,000,000, in German Austria at $800,000,000. The sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany...
Zoogoers, like circusgoers, are not so much interested in seeing animals as in seeing animals act. Two years ago some 2,250,000 people flocked to the St. Louis Zoological Park, famed for its animal stunts, to watch two chimpanzees do battle in a boxing ring. This winter St. Louis trainers worked arduously on a new act which they hope will supplant the now-retired fighting apes...
Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...