Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ring Lardner once wrote a book and called it, intelligently enough, "What Of It?" The same title might aptly be applied to the above journalistic summary of any man's weakness and woman's integrity. As merely frivolous fancies of average minds such analysis of social problems are, if not welcome, at least endurable. Their greatest service is to fill space which would otherwise be either empty or devoted to some less innocuous article. They have no possible value to any except, perhaps, as a starting point for conversation; and it is questionable whether or not they even have...
...16th year that her performance against a highly rated shooter, Frank Butler, both broke and stole his heart. Soon they were married and she later said, "Frank really reared me." They toured as partners until one day in Texas a cowhand yelled at Mr. Butler, "Git outa the ring and give the girl a chance." Annie Oakley broke glass balls to the crowd's contented amazement. Thereafter Mr. Butler was only her manager...
...Tatt" (Richard Tattersall) may well have turned in his grave last week. When he founded in 1766 what has become "Tatter-sail's," the most famous horse race betting ring in England, no such pink, blue and green tickets had been thought of as were sold by "bookies" throughout Britain for the first time last week...
...forth the corresponding Harvard view of Yale spirit and Yale religion would perhaps not conduce to the growth of Christian harmony and brotherly love. The appeal is to wholly different types of mind; but, as Mr. Ring Larder reminds us, some like them hot, some like them cold. Religion at Harvard and religion at Yale have this in common, that each is a natural growth of the habit of mind characteristic of the university. Yale's motto is "Light and Truth," Harvard's is "Truth" alone. Whether intentionally or not, the distinction appears to symbolize a difference in the Yale...
...longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...