Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascinating Stranger is a tramp who steals a lawnmower, gets a platinum ring in a " swap," sells it for $750, buys an $18 lawnmower, which he returns to the astonished householder, and lives one glorious week on his money, content that for once he has enjoyed life...
...benefit the crowded Crique de Paris rose to shout their greeting. The ovation lasted through his sparring match and until the dressing room had closed its door upon him. Battling Siki, who knocked out Carpentier for the world's light-heavyweight championship on September 24, entered the same ring amid hoots and hisses...
Since 1902 Langford has been known and respected by the followers of the prize ring. In better days he was so well known and so highly respected that none of the existing champions could be inveigled into the ring with him. Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard?none of them would fight him after they acquired their titles. Accordingly Sam dug along fighting second raters for small money. Joe Jeanette, also a Negro, was his usual opponent. They fought more than 20 battles, Langford winning the majority. The one man in the world that Langford did not care to meet...
Langford is the last bridge between the old school champions and the new. He is a little man. In his time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd...
...present, the Republican ring-leaders appear to have every intention of renominating President Harding. Mr. Coolidge, nothing daunted by the President's rebuke of Mr. Daugherty, has come out with an assured statement that the party will be satisfied with its present leader. There is little else, in fact, that it can do. If Barkis himself is willing, it would scarcely be politic for the party to repudiate him. And of his willingness, the statements of Messrs. Daugherty and Coolidge are the best witness...