Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patty Conklin's "Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...
...Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
They could not, unfortunately, deflate the "gaseous metaphysics" of Nazi doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism...
...hellbox, as the publishers helpfully note on the jacket, is the place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...
...ultimately dispiriting quality of O'Hara's writing has been variously explained. One explanation: since his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, he has worked out a kind of ring technique for polishing off his subjects in one fast round. Subjects on which he might have to go the distance are not taken on; such subjects include whatever, if anything, O'Hara may love...