Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting three cigars in the pocket of his formal evening clothes. The valet maintained that more than two cigars made a bulge in the pocket. The President answered that less than three cigars would not carry him through...
Near Wilkes Barre, Pa., one Joseph Nowanick, coal miner, angled for fish in Brohead Creek, fished up a diamond-ring. He learned it had been lost by a Mrs. Joseph Brown of Manhattan and was worth $1,700. Honest, Miner Nowanick sent the ring home. Grateful, Mrs. Brown offered a reward. Proud, Miner Nowanick refused. Insistent, Mrs. Brown invited him to Manhattan to spend Memorial Day. Sociable, Miner Nowanick accepted...
...good spring nights the Yard should ring to "Bow, bow, ye lower-middle classes" in place of "Rinehart", and nothing could be more appropriate this week than "A policeman's lot is not a happy one." So, bow, bow, you slaving underclass men, to the inevitable, and order your tickets in advance...
...Paso, Tex., Joe Parelli and Billy Hallas, wrestlers of unimportance, climbed into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
...Ford's notions about the devilish machinations of 'Jewish bankers,' 'the Jewish ring,' 'the Jewish plunderbund,' are regarded as childish, ludicrous, fantastic...