Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this kind of verisimilitude. Laughter and tears may be close to one another, but the distance between naturalness and high emotional crisis is so far that it is difficult not to lose conviction at one end or the other of the journey. Both Miss Cowl and Mr. Merivale ring a tone less true within Peter's dream than out of it. Perhaps it is a subtlety that this should be so in a dream land...
When you see your first war play in several years, two points are driven home in short order. The first is that the tears, the significant remarks and so on do not ring true, and the other is that the humor isn't half as bad as you used to think it was when you were deluged with it some years back...
Collars': "Since his young days the King has remained faithful to the tie which slips through a gold ring. He has adopted the double collar; one cut on orthodox lines, neither opening so widely as that of the Prince of Wales nor with such deep points as that of the Duke of York...
...afternoons, a poet says, have been in Montana, and few of them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after...
...anti-evolutionists were banding together, distributing propaganda. In California blossomed the Bryan Bible League; in Philadelphia, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools. In the legislatures ot 16 other States similar bills were introduced. And last week citizens...