Word: ringed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Take the end, which is extremely effective operatically. Don José encounters Carmen outside of the bull ring in which her new lover Escamillo is fighting. He begs her to return to him. She refuses. Mingled with this sombre piece of action come the jubilant shouts from the bull ring and the torreador's music from the orchestra. With this background of colorful contrast, Don José kills Carmen...
...Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement the original syndicate of "six to nine" brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal ring. But the bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments of departing Autumn...
...Firpo ("Argentine Ape") knocked out Jess Willard (" Huge Anachronism of the Ring") in eight rounds in Jersey City...
...Jack Dempsey at his Shelby headquarters after the 15-round fight in which he retained his world's championship by decision over Tom Gibbons. In an extended interview given to a representative of this singular specific, Dempsey revealed secrets that should virtually revolutionize the progress of the prize ring. It seems that Dempsey has taken large quantities of the Iron as a staple of his training diet before all his championship struggles...
...Some writers and cinema men. (For example, Charles Hanson Towne, poet; Carl Laemmle, movie actor; Ring Lardner, humorist; Briggs, McManus, Goldberg, cartoonists...