Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real menace to American prosperity. . . . Until they cease to have power to run the Federal Government, confidence will not return to America. . . . Congress may be incoherent, but it is not so flippant as the President and his posse of experimenting and irresponsible advisors. . . . Will they dare to ring down the curtain on the President's prima donna performances which are at the root of this Crisis of Confidence...
...super-authorized biography of the No. 2 Nazi and Minister President, Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, rolled portentously off the presses of the Nazi Party publishing house last week. It postulates that three "virtues" in which Colonel General Göring excels...
There was a great roar as Max Schmeling and Harry Thomas clambered through the thick maroon ropes that enclose the smoky, brightly-lit boxing ring. Referee Arthur Donovan mumbled orders in the centre of the ring, the fighters moved back to their corners, and the bell clanged. Both came out in a crouch, eyed each other for a moment. Then Thomas cracked Schmeling with a tentative left, first blow of an uncommonly bloody fight...
...blood, but he fought back hard. At the end of the round he was groggy. In the seventh Thomas grew weaker under the pounding. Just before the bell, for the first time in his career, he finally dropped to the canvas. For the eighth round, Thomas walked into the ring bleary-eyed. Schmeling hit him with a right and he went down again. Schmeling confidently turned to a neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling...
...Buenos Aires. Her faded diva aunt (Helen Westley) insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge, "Pancho" Brown (Stuart Erwin), who lay siege to Elsa with flowers, gifts, attentions. When Elsa discovers what seems to be a ring of cold business in Guthrie's honeydew phrases. the plot bears to the left, but the clairvoyant audience knows it will come right again...