Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont at 8.15--"Fast Company". A highly amusing comedy of the bush leaguer who got into the majors. By one who ought to know, Ring Lardner...
...Hassan" is admittedly a three ring circus of costume and character, music and dancing, tragedy and love, couched in a verse tongue foreign to the modern stage, but in an idiom of beauty readily welcome. It is an amalgam of the accepted romantic and aestheic elements so healthily mixed in an atmosphere so familiarly strange that its reception was easily predictable. With such its attraction, the insinuating suggestion that its peculiar pictorial display, which so readily drew workers, may have helped to swell the tide of favor, can but skirt the vulgar...
John Thorp's invention was a ring device for spinning cotton thread from cotton fibre more rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...
...John Thorp, Putative Photograph of Inventor of Ring Spinning Honored at Cotton Manufacturers' Convention." No more...
...with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends her, loves her, kills her jealous brute of a husband. She is convicted...