Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiers and marines had squirmed through the charred ashes of leveled buildings, grasses, companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding...
...bootlegging profession are universal. At Lawrence, Mass., the typical defendants on trial last week were the mayor himself and his brother, a Chelsea police inspector. These brothers, by name Quigley, Mayor Lawrence F. and Inspector Thomas, were indicted last August with 42 others as belonging to an alleged "ring." An ex-convict testified that he was paid $300 for helping to unload liquors at the Quigley mansion...
...knocked him down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising...
...Slender and genteel, he lambasted British plug-uglies in Paris sporting clubs; and proved that although he wore an orchid in the evenings and received perfumed notes in the mornings he could hit hard and dodge adroitly. Last week for nine seconds Carpentier lay on his face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas Loughran, mick. Loughran won the decision...
...tired referee that staggered out of a Manhattan ring last week where awkward Light-Heavyweight Champion Paul Berlenbach had been defending himself against flat -footed Challenger Billy ("Young") Stribling. The latter had spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of range of a vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping...