Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...
Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...
Even though almost half of California's most valuable property, the sun, will be covered Whipple said last night that the Observatory was not providing for any data-collection even there, because of the predicted ring shape of the corona preventing good photography...
...Gallegos (TIME, Sept. 29), Caldera last week picked the Caracas bull ring for the opening speech of his campaign. After the cheers had rolled away, he outlined his party's "Social Christianity" program. "The rich should be less rich, the poor less poor," he said. He asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish...
...outcome of the 1935 battle of the goalposts is not, unfortunately, recorded but this year's three-ring defense of the north, or Harvard uprights was aided very materially by the Princeton band, which held souvenir-hungry Bengals immobile in their stands for nearly five minutes with a rendition of the alma mater, "Old Nassau." Finding the proper posts well-guarded, the visitors somewhat illogically tore down their own standards, which were as illogically (and weakly) defended...