Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was but one exception to the giant murmur of discontent that rose over the general mess on the Cantabridgian streets. That was Texan Freshman whose only other experience with snow was through a family narcotics ring. Sliding down an ice pile behind Widener, he announced he loved it knee deep. He was the only one, but the only handicap of this editorial is that we can't blame anyone either for this or for '88. The historical method may be the best to tackle the problem...
When World War II broke out, he was worth an estimated $50 to $100 million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
Some of the letters were merely apple-polishing jobs. But others, like the letter of Thomas B. Anslow, 42, who won first prize (a Cadillac), had a ring as authentic as the clang of the drop-forge hammer he operates in Buick's Flint plant. Wrote Anslow, a veteran of 23 years: "A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines. . . . Pounding, pushing, squeezing white-hot steel. ... A forge . . . rattles the windows in buildings for blocks around. It is hot and dirty and it is noisy. It has a smell of heat...
Sneezing Titmarsh. It was in the fifth of his Christmas Books, which he illustrated himself, that Thackeray came closest to realizing his earlier ambition to draw. ("What, you, too, Mr. Titmarsh? you sneering wretch. . .?") His last and most famous Christmas book-The Rose and the Ring-was written around some sketches he had drawn to amuse his daughters. He continued his fairy tale to entertain a neighbor's sick child. "It was," wrote the little girl, "a black day when the dear giant did not come. The people in The Rose and the Ring were real people...
...there are other implications, of which the pet turtle bootlegging ring is only one example. Not only is the grocery store cat in constant danger from the racketeers, but even the squirrels in the Yard are not safe. The story of the captured rat of Hollis Hall, for which the world is not yet ready, is known by some and suspected by many, but the tale is too horrible to tell. It is enough to say that had the event been made open and legal by University Hall from the beginning, many lives and many hearts would have been spared...