Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ashore, thousands tried to catch the emerald and diamond ring on Cardinal Bonzano's hand-to get grace thereby. The police permitted a few to kiss the ring...
...they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...
...Falstaff and his band of blustering pickpockets. When civil war breaks out, Hal puts off his dissipation and kills Hotspur on the field of battle. Hal was played, intermittently well, by Basil Sydney, and Hotspur, for about the same values, by Philip Merivale. Peggy Wood, William Courtleigh, Blanche Ring, Rosamond Pinchot (as Prince John) were among the notables...
Legal attempts to reduce human affairs to the common denominator of justice are commendable in principle but occasionally laughable in practice. In a neighboring state, the Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down...
Perhaps that is the best method of continuing what has been one of the finest traditions at New Haven, none the less finer because of its dissimilarity from those at Harvard which would little emphasize solidarity in the social sense. To the alien ear it has a rather false ring. For fraternity systems which assumes such ramifications as to bind a college into a social unit usually stifle...