Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scales and he weighed 174 1/2 lb. Then his rival got on and the weight was shoved way out on the bar to 190. Of course with such a difference in weight, the champion was not risking his title. But he freely and voluntarily entered the ring at Madison Square Garden with the 190-pounder, Johnny Risko, in consideration of a part of the $62,000 of gate receipts collected from Theodore Roosevelt, Red Grange, Charley Hoff and 11,669 others...
...waters of the Rhine closed over the fateful Ring; swaggering Siegfried, murdered, burned on a giant pyre, Brünnhilde with him; Walhalla flamed red in the sky and, greed punished, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph...
...that over a period of years salaries will average well. It must be borne in mind, of course, that on all such jobs men will have to do considerable hard work. They will have to out in hours. If it is a direct selling job, they will have to ring door bells and ring them consistently and persistently throughout the summer...
Athenian pressmen stood open-mouthed in a little eager ring last week while a powerful, flashing-eyed old man performed the miracle of interesting them in The History of the Peloponnesian War (431 to 411 B. C.), composed by famed historian Thucydides upon the spot...
...outpost of Roman power in Britain. On the tip of the Cornwall peninsula it lay, between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, until the ocean rose up and swallowed it. Today, "old fisherman still boast that when the sea is still, they can hear its church bells ring far down beneath the rippling keel...