Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truly the prize occupation is that of the Monkey Deporter, who is not, as might be supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers...
...Government charged in its petition that " actually, transactions on the exchange in an overwhelming majority of cases do not involve and are not intended to involve the delivery of the amount of raw sugar purported to be sold thereby. Such transactions are completed by matching ring settlements or payments of difference, and by clearing through defendant clearing associations (named in the suit) without delivery of the amounts stated in the contracts." The Government goes on to quote the percentages of contracts actually consummated by delivery as being .0018% in November, 1922; .0023% in December...
Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, is tired of heaving hogsheads on the New York water front. He issued the following blanket challenge: " I'll agree to fight Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don't ask for a penny. But if I stop all of them I want a match with Dempsey." It is not likely that Mr. Wills' boredom with hogsheads will have much effect on the attitude of his contemporaries. Besides being a substantial citizen between fights he is even more...
...modern American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
Johnson will fight Farmer Lodge of St. Paul (white) in the same ring...