Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacular events were those in which Army officers from Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and the U. S. competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps a half-point was scored against...
...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...
...This innuendo seemed to have reference to recent sewer-pipe scandals in the Borough of Queens (TIME, Oct. 29). If so, it was either an ill-informed or a knavish innuendo. The Queens sewer-pipe grafting was effected by a Democratic ring to which Tammany was opposed, and which Governor Smith had specially and successfully prosecuted. * Senator Moses is personally and politically...
Huge Salvatore Ruggirello, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, entered a prize-ring in Paris and was knocked out by Primo Camera, 6 ft. 11 in. tall, 266 pounds in weight...
...Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades on Religion and Liquor by Smith in West Turn Voters in Disgust." But, here and there, The Fellowship Forum would say something nice; one week, on the Women's Page, was a glowing sketch of Mrs. Herbert Hoover. One of the owners of The Fellowship...