Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they grasped hands in the Palazzo Chigi both knew that Italy has recently signed treaties of "friendship, arbitration and amity" with Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The one country lacking to complete the ring of treaties encircling Jugoslavia was Hungary. Therefore, last week, when the Italo-Hungarian treaty* was signed, the Fascist press burst into such a eulogy of Il Duce as it has seldom before achieved. But what did Hungary get out of this pen scratching...
...even for, his training expenses. In Dempsey's last fight he got $300,000 regardless of whether he won or not. Fight like that takes all the incentive away. It made very little difference to him whether he won or lost. Believe me when I got into the ring with Sullivan I fought like a fool because it either would make or break me and of course Sullivan was fighting the same...
...baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors to wax prolific...
Last week the April issue of the Ladies' Home Journal was announced with full-page newspaper displays which shouted: "Ring down the Curtain on the Obscene! Obscene books, obscene magazines, obscene newspapers and obscene plays [nice word, obscene-a word to get a kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water...
Clare, who has married well, dresses her, takes her to polo matches, rubs away the dust of Sussex and the bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...