Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship of the world, Ettore and Louis crawled into a ring in the Municipal Stadium. The fight, which drew a crowd of 50,000, lasted five lively rounds. In the first, two rights put Ettore down for a short count. In the second and third, Ettore, who had promised to knock Louis into the 15th row, courageously belabored his opponent's ribs...
...Churchill, hopped the steamer Bremen at Southampton. In London, the dancing daughter of Poet Robert Ranke Graves promptly tipped off the Daily Express that Sarah's ticket had been paid for by Comedian Vic Oliver, who had offered her a job in U. S. vaudeville, plus a wedding ring. Instantly Father Churchill dispatched Son Randolph on the Queen Mary to fetch Daughter Sarah back. Meanwhile inquiring Manhattan newshawks found Vic Oliver in a Broadway Hotel. Spouted he: "Miss Churchill is just another girl to me. ... I know 25,240 girls all over the world. . . . I need a job myself...
...direction of academical education. . . . The presence of men eminent in various departments of knowledge would impart a dignity and stability to the whole institution, far more effectual against attacks from without than the utmost amount of privilege and protection." Attacks from without--the phrase has a modern ring. Events proved that the Commission of 1850 was correct in its statement, the changes which they advocated restored the confidence of the nation in its two ancient institutions. They could not foresee, however, the reluctance of certain sections of public opinion to welcome the restoration of the true university tradition. They...
...sister, often drives to Herkimer for weekends with his mother, hopes to organize the nine D'Ambrosio children into a jazz band in which he will play banjo and clarinet. Last spring, one of his opponents died as the result of cracking his head on the ring floor. Since then, Lou Ambers has attended no prizefights as a witness...
Soon as the pjiest had made his obeisance by kneeling and kissing Bishop Gallagher's Episcopal ring (see cut, p. 62), the two churchmen greeted each other as man to man. Bishop Gallagher: "Well, how are you?" Father Coughlin: "I am fine, Your Grace. And how are you?" The bishop beamed. Then the two faced the Press...