Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), famed Spanish court painter, who lived a life about as regular as that of Benvenuto Cellini. He served for a time with a "quadrilla" of bullfighters and much of his work savors of the bull ring. In recent years he has been much venerated for his bold technique. The plates of Goya's etchings are owned by the Spanish Government, and while the impressions made in Goya's time are rare and expensive, modern prints from the old and worn plates are struck off in cheap profusion...
...LOVE NEST AND OTHER STORIES - Ring W. Lardner - Scribner ($1.75). The tall morose funnyman from Niles, Mich., gives no indication of having been disconcerted by the jubilee chorus of critics that lately discovered he was a Great Mind. He just goes steadily along, more silent than ever: honing his wits on the leathernecks he meets; pruning his technique down finer and finer; laying out, in patterns that grow increasingly simple and subtle, the terrific banalities that constitute life for the average Americano-that ubiquitous creature that no one ever sees in his own shaving mirror. Husbands and wives...
...society were certain members of the Revere Beach Fire Department to whom the Jampoon management had given free tickets. These made a merry scene with their flaming helmets and firey hose. The belle of the party was Miss Cupola of Mt. Auburn Street who was surrounded by a ring of spectators at all times...
...what name did the public know William Henry Johnson, who passed last week into the celestial ring? (See MILESTONES...
...wrestling ring in Atlanta, Joseph Stecher, world's heavyweight champion, pursued an old man. Every now and again he would leap in air, waving his legs -legs so prehensile that whenever Stecher wraps them around a wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking...