Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referred to the recent Republican fiasco (the nomination of the "unknown" Senator Harding). The comment of the country, she declared was: "Well, they might have done worse." Then gazing directly at her hearers, she proclaimed: "Nominate Mr. Davis and the comment that will ring through out the land will be 'Well, they couldn't have done better...
...best, as the editorial of the present number suggests, to let each type of ability have its day. When a stroke for progess may be driven home, let it fall clean and ring hard; when poems and stories are to be the service of the Advocate to its contributors and to the college, let the work be as lively and adopt as the Advocate's work regularly is, and the service in either case will be a true one. Meanwhile, the Advocate has all too little of a type of writing which lies between the styles discussed above...
...WRITE SHORT STORIES (WITH SAMPLES)?Ring Lardner ? Scribner ($2.00). Ring Lardner is experiencing the difficult honor of being overpraised by those zealous critics whose word of endorsement is death to ambition. Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business...
...back of the ear that ended the fight, his left eye was closed with a swelling that extended half way up his forehead and his lips were bleeding profusely. He had been knocked down three times and through a good part of the bout went careening drunkenly around the ring taking almost everything Johnson had to give...
...with the white ring of senility around the eye, a man who walks feebly, sits listlessly in his chair, having all the marks of senility at the age of 65, 70 or older, will after les greffes testiculaires walk upright and with vigor...