Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luis Angel Firpo will demonstrate his battering right in his native ring. He has selected as his opponent Farmer Lodge, incompetent U. S. heavyweight. On the Buenos Aires football field, they will fight 15 rounds, Feb. 10, for the Women's Charity Association of Buenos Aires. Lodge will receive $3,000 and traveling expenses...
...Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
...Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...
Jack Dempsey, who writes "feature stories" for the Hearst press, expressed himself last week as follows: "All this talk around New York that I am afraid to fight Harry Wills is beginning to get on my nerves. . . . Just let me get in the ring with Harry Wills and I'll win in a round or two. They tell me that Wills has a habit of grabbing an opponent around the neck with his left hand and then, as he pulls him in, Harry hooks his right to the body. Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better...
...ceremony of creating the two Cardinals began. The two prospective Cardinals were introduced into the Pope's presence by the Papal Master of Ceremonies, who held cardinal's hats above their heads as they performed the ceremony of "admiration"-kissing the Holy Father's cheek, ring and cross embroidered upon his slipper. Taking the hats from the Master of Ceremonies he placed them upon their heads, saying, "Receive...