Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, and said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem...
...until Max Schmeling gave him a workman- like beating last June, was the task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
Grown paunchy but no more quarrelsome during his absence from the ring, Fisticuffer Sharkey came cautiously out of his corner in New York's Yankee Stadium, dabbed tentatively at his opponent until Louis' right fist exploded on his jaw. Thereafter his efforts, devoted exclusively to self-defense, were even less successful. Louis scored two knockdowns in the second round, two more in the third. After the fourth knockdown Fisticuffer Sharkey shook his head, removed his rubber mouth-guard, lay down while the referee counted him out. Next day. sports writers told what they thought had happened: Fisticuffer Louis...
...told the world she would devote her time to helping "young players seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille...
...Coronation Ring, worn by King George and previous British Sovereigns on the little finger of the right hand, was ordered enlarged by King Edward last week to fit his third or betrothal finger...