Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selassie, Göring & Pajamas. Zest and pace were given to the approaching Coronation by striking events last week. With faint shrugs and slightly lifted eyebrows civil servants of the Foreign Office told the press that, since His Majesty's Government still recognize the Ethiopian Government of Haile Selassie (although he has been driven from Addis Ababa) and the Spanish Government of Francisco Largo Caballero (although he has been driven from Madrid), invitations have had to be dispatched to these Governments asking them to send representatives to the Coronation. At news of this Benito Mussolini, who was recently appeased...
...whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...
...there long enough to become champion of Venezuela. Weary of beating humans, he decided bulls were more his style, set out to become a torero. Bullfight season in Caracas, Venezuela starts with the famed "race" for novice bullfighters in which bulls, being chased through the streets to the bull ring by mounted picadors, are harassed by neophyte toreros all trying to reach the arena last, i.e., closest to the bulls. Devil Montanez won the race in 1933. Hailed by Caracas critics as promising bull ring material, Devil Montanez became weary of Venezuela, decided Europe was more his style, sailed...
Cool and impassive in the ring, Devil Montanez is impatient, ferocious, temperamental to a degree outside of it. Last week he invited hundreds of denizens of New York's Negro and Spanish quarter, where he lives, to a "victory ball" at 50? and 75? a head. Before the fight he had decorated a hall with huge banners proclaiming his triumph...
...polo team will ride into the ring tonight with a so-so record. They have again won the "A" League title, played for among teams of this vicinity, but in his most important intercollegiate clashes, Captain Palmer's team have dropped decisions to West Point and Yale, and neither of them were by very close scores. But the them got off to a slow start because the ring in the Armory was torn up, and they hope to make a better showing against the Elis tonight than they did last Saturday on the small New Haven ring. In the Armory...