Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nina Wilcox Putnam and Mr. Ring Lardner has recently wrote a book about marraige which George H. Doran has got the nerve to publish. At least they have each wrote a short piece. Ring has called his "Say it with Oil", and Nina has called hers "Say it with Bricks". The first is about women, marraige, and etc, and the second is about men, marraige, and ect. Then they have somehow got the two under one cozor where they live peaceable enough, not as if married...
Though it came as a surprise to politicians that President Harding's hat should be thrown into the ring so soon, there were several reasons why the announcement should have been made at this time. In the first place there have been rumors steadily gathering force and cogency in Washington to the effect that Mr. Harding was tired of his job, that his own health and that of his wife precluded another long and strenuous campaign, that harassed by the extremists of the Old Guard on the one hand and the insurgent LaFollette group on the other, he preferred...
Naturally, the appearance of Mr. Harding's hat in the ring was the signal for the Democrats to put a disparaging interpretation upon it. The Democratic National Committee began at once to cast about for the weakest and most plausible spot through which to thrust an opening campaign wedge. They found it in the remarks of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, considered by political experts to be the spokesman of the Eastern Republicans, and certainly one of the three highest figures in the Republican party organization...
Battling Siki, dark blot on the Carpentier 'scutcheon, lost the light heavyweight championship of the world in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day to Mike McTigue, third-rate American fighter. In the 17th round of the scheduled 20, the Senegalese faltered about the ring, groggy before McTigue's punches, finally falling into a clinch to hug himself safe from a knockout. The American received the decision on points...
...normal interest of the Irish populace in fighting was augmented by the " decree" of the outlaw Republicans forbidding the bout. Free State bayonets spiked the decree and a bomb explosion a stone's throw from the ring was the only interruption. Two children were wounded...