Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still contrasts favorably with the .932 credited to Coach Mitchell's nine at the close of the first week in May, 1926. Jones kept up his streak of faultless fielding in the outer gardens, while Donaghy, at short, maintained his commanding position among the guardians of the inner ring with a .969 average to his credit...
Both men, the citizenry decided, were admirable fellows. Therefore, crowds cheered Edward of Wales when he arrived from London to visit the Spanish Royal Family; and still greater crowds throated lustily when Nicanor Villalta, slayer of 800 bulls, returned from Mexico, bearing that chief prize of the American bull ring, a bauble known as "The Golden Ears of Mexico...
...wrote the above, and Louis Barthou, who has just written a biography,* view the same aspect of Richard Wagner. Both see his crude love-affairs as inherent, important surfaces of his genius rather than detached experiences remote from the mind which was capable of Tristan und Isolde, Der Ring des Nibelungen...
...amorous adventures. He was the adorer of many women but most notably three: Minna (Wilhelmina Planer), a stupid, clamorous, third-rate actress whom he married; Mathilde (Mme. Weson-donck) who inspired Tristan; and Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions...
That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...