Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the U. S., presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire...
...College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook, but he usually fixed things up for his clients, whether they were members of the notorious Tweed Ring or onetime (1881-85) U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Great spawning corporations found use for the mental agility of Attorney Root. James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and E. H. Harriman came to his office. Said E. H. Harriman: "Other attorneys tell us what...
...jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with Bud's choice. . . . Mr. Stillman is as pleased as I am. . . . We bought her an emerald and diamond ring, after shopping two days. It is a beautiful jewel but not more beautiful than the jewels that Lena possesses-and by that I refer to her wonderful character. . . . She is a nice little girl . . . my little wood-daughter . . . my little daughter of the bush...
...Cicero men are not only men: they are gunmen. And similarly in other communities--in bloody Herrin, in Canton, and of course in the metropolitan centers. It would and it will when the time comes--take a better system than the present one to wipe out the invisible ring of crime which encircles this country. Such citizens as Scarface Al Camponi and his ilk are unfortunately a product of American legal and judicial conditions. So the logical deduction is that they will be removed only by change in those conditions...
...reference to singing and dancing together; they seem to have been inseparably wedded. Most true is this in the religious ceremony, and indeed it was in worship of the gods that the molpe was most generally employed. A bard, with a lyre, stood in the center of the dancing ring, and instituted the dance, and conducted and led the movements, singing to his lyre, and accompanied by the dancers themselves. Later, the dancing chorus was divided into singing and dancing units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama of a later period, and finally...