Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burning down at us are 44 1,000-watt lamps over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...
...ropes . . . white flannels, long bathrobe . . . friend in a long green coat. . . . Here comes Tunney . . . [blast of cheering from the crowd]. . . . He's got on blue trunks with red trimmings. . . . They're getting the gloves out of a box tied with pretty blue ribbon. . . . The announcer shouting in the ring . . . trying to quiet 150,000 people. . . . Robes...
...This is a big night. Three million dollars' worth of boxing bugs are gathering around a ring at Soldiers' Field, Chicago. Here come some of the preliminary boys. . . . Oho, that was a fast one . . .that hurt. . . . Well, they tried pretty hard . . . boxing is a prosaic business. ... I came up from St. Louis today in an airplane . . . that's real . . . you and the pilot and God ALL ALONE TOGETHER. . . . Have you seen Eddie Dowling's show? . . . Another preliminary . . . that is better . . . oho . . . hard left...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth could see no possible reason for a special sitting of the House over whose doings he is ring master...
Rains. Over the Central Plateau of Mexico the rains descended and the floods arose, threatening inundation of Mexico City. Hundreds were rendered homeless; crops in large areas were ruined; railroads were washed out at many points; canals burst their banks; a bull ring almost collapsed; many houses were partially submerged...