Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed...
...Pulitzer Prize of 1927 for his picture of Colonel Lindbergh flying to Mexico with his plane casting a cruciform shadow labeled "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." At the end of August he drew a telling picture called "The Big Bout to Date"?an enormous prize-ring in which two tiny pugilists (the two Parties) threatened each other with furious futility from opposite corners. The crowd was yelling: "Fight! G'wan, fight...
...Neither Yale nor Harvard allowed their first opponents to score upon them. No heel or seal-ring prints were seen upon the face of Guarnaccia, Harvard's halfback, after he and his fellows had scored 30 points against Springfield. Yale, though not easily, made 27 points against Maine...
There was no fatted calf, no purple robe, no new ring for his finger when Leopold Stokowski stepped up on the dais last week for the season's first Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Academy of Music. But there was the same blond halo and the wildest acclaim Philadelphians permit themselves. Their prodigal was home and great was the rejoicing. He had had them worried.. All manner of mystic rumors had drifted in from his Far East trip. He would return. He would not return. He had been hypnotized by Indian and Javanese music. At best he could...
That is the story of Elmer Kane in its essentials; it is also the story of Jack Keefe, the hero of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al. Somehow Ring Lardner has been able to put Jack Keefe, himself in person, onto the stage, and Walter Huston plays the part so that you forget it is one. George M. Cohan produced the play and Cohan plays have plots; therefore you will find, muffling the funny and pathetic character of "Hurry" Kane, a ridiculous jumble about an attempted Black Sox deal which is very nearly sufficient to spoil the play...