Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring at Utica, Mich. last week, Joe Louis put Bing Crosby through a few paces. Bing Crosby is a five-gaited saddle horse and Joe Louis was riding him in the highest-toned Negro horse show ever held...
...challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger as a towel came sailing into the ring. Picking up the towel (an outmoded symbol of surrender, now illegal in New York State), the referee threw it out of the ring...
Next day on Broadway, slow-motion newsreels revealed what had actually happened during those incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short...
...Louis got $2,590 for every second he was in the ring, Schmeling...
...entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week since 1921, and Wall Street was as gloomy as only that particularly volatile spot can be. Then one morning as customers' men straggled long-faced to their desks, telephones began to ring...