Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the past few years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils can and have been eliminated through careful and intelligent regulation of the competition...
...sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion...
...Gray Day," a work by George Bellows, should prove to be an unusually powerful piece of delineation. It represents workmen by a turbulent stream, and if it possesses any of the force displayed in Bellows lithographs of the ring which have attracted much attention lately, it is a picture not to be missed...
Caponsacchi?Walter Hampden's company in picturesque drama based on Browning's The Ring and the Book...
Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...