Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forget. John Brown struck to free them before even Lincoln's name was great in the land. Nor does Lawyer Clarence Darrow forget. He approves of his father and John Brown having been friends in early Ohio. He helped lead last week's pilgrimage and made the woods ring with emotional oratory...
...grandmother thought of appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed. One of his hearers, Authoress Rose Terry, put a ring in the collection plate. Dramatic, Dr. Beecher slipped the ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with a Brooklyn family, was re-named Rose Ward, dropped from the public eye. Later she went...
...just sits there and sees into the future when his sons and his sons' sons will hear that joke; he looks back into the past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
...opera, not that it mattered, was Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier, heralding a season of decidedly Germanic tone, including two complete revolutions of the Wagner Ring...
...parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What...