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Word: ringed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn't she eaten? Is bitch eating worse than cannibalism? Russia. Moscow and Leningrad saw redder than usual, last week, as the great Communist newspapers Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News'") flayed "these Fascist swine!" An editorial in Pravda-whose editor is Nikolai Bukharin, closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ring Around Nobile | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons and open safety pins are not infrequently swallowed without fatality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Stomached Diamonds | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God and the Devil | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery, did what he could with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...third. From time to time ring dances, bergamasks or reels, could be introduced permitting the aroused contestants to approach each other closely and making for further excitement. Additional arbitrary rules should be introduced to make it harder?perhaps every male dancer should carry a carnation in his buttonhole, absence of which would cause instant disqualification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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