Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first two months the fundamentals of footwork and punching, later feinting and countering must be mastered before the actual ring work begins...
...Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with the Law. It was not for the sort of offense-rape, shooting, embezzlement et al.-which lawbreaking parsons commonly commit. On the word of a U. S. Secret Service agent, Father Balaban was a counterfeiter, head of a ring which operatives had been watching for a year...
...Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more to unsuspecting Yugoslavia...
Golden Boy is not in the mass-attack tradition of the typical Odets power play. It singles out cross-eyed, spiritually tormented Joe Bonaparte (Luther Adler), studies his indecision between the violin and pugilism, traces the gradual disintegration of his character in the brutish environment of the ring, and brings him finally to the realization that the false ideals and broken hands of the fight game have ruined his chances for happiness, broken his father's heart...
...halls of the Boston Book Fair ring with applause for a handful of professors in modern American literature, some mention is due Harvard's department of Americana, of which these gentlemen form but a very small part...