Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was always a trick in Houdini's more startling performances, something like a false bottom or a split ring. It seemed perfectly legitimate, because the public goes to see a contortionist to be amusingly deceived. There was a trick in the Littleton release of Sinclair, too, only when the verdict was announced, the public did not seem amused...
...with their efforts as chorus girls unsuccessful, they are glad when rich Lonnie Van Hook invites them out to dinner in a gaudy restaurant. But, alackaday, they must leave their only wristwatch to pay the check, because Mr. Van Hook is suddenly called away. Later, he brings an engagement ring to Joan; she shows it to her true lover (a poor author), who throws it out the window and marries her. Mamie, however, picks up the ring and hooks Mr. Van Hook...
When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs...
...instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded. Merciless because inanimate it had blown the laughing girl-child so utterly to atoms that afterwards only her left hand could be found, and identified by a thin, cheap ring...
...want you to know," wrote Joe Bado, Bradley, Ohio, to Promoter Tex Rickard last week, "that I am a man with both artificial legs. I think the public would think it was grate to see a man with two artificial legs in the ring with Tunney. ... I am not afraid to fight...