Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Das Rheingold, second of the Wagner matinee cycle, was given at the Metropolitan Opera House. Thousands jammed their way through the great front doors, determined not to miss the only performance of the season of the first "Ring" opera. In through the back door went a short, dumpy old lady, in a seagoing hat and an old brown storm coat. She was Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 65 years old, appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas...
...world's middleweight boxing title last week entered the Madison Square Garden prize ring wreathed invisibly about the swart, truculent brows of Champion Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, where it had rested since an August evening in 1923. It left the ring cocked deliriously askew on the black, tight-wooled pate of gold-toothed "Bengal Tiger" Flowers of Brunswick, Ga., onetime psalm-singer. Fight-followers lamented one of the most unpugilistic championship bouts ever held. Greb, reported to be "sodded with night life," had hedged and hesitated, held, butted, thumbed Tiger's eyeballs. Greb had won most of the 15 rounds...
...eighteenth century, when a novel appeared, the public used to spend about two months reading it. When the good people of Amesbury-on-the-Tyne, or some other center of learning had finally turned the last page of Richardson's tale, they would ring the village bell to celebrate the tidings that Pamela retained her virtue...
...Uppercuts and lorgnets in a comedy of how the prize ring came to the social register...
...addition to dispensing stateliness of presence, ring of voice, ability to cerebrate while vertical, and modern substitutes for the Demosthenic pebble, Dr. Covington studies the vocabulation of his charges. He estimates that the average educated person has a nodding acquaintance* with 18,000 English words, or possibly twice that number. It is very difficult to be exact. Ten years ago he took in hand a list of 100 words that should be recognized by this hypothetical person, and administered it to his students year after year. The students had to use each word in a sentence, and brilliant examples would...