Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the corridors of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called...
...these were splendid, well-nigh perfect dogs. But when, on the second day, the winners in every breed paraded into the ring so that the judges could choose from among them a champion of champions, an Ace-King of the show, the grand prize went to none of these. It went to an obscure little white...
Valisan of Vladeska, Russian wolfhound, sheer white except for a black patch over his eye. He stalked negligently around the ring, content to give the rabble the privilege of seeing, for once, an aristocrat in ermine. J. Allen Dunn, novelist, judged this class, adeptly weeding out all those dogs which looked too much like the trademark of Publisher Alfred Knopf...
...biography and novels who wait for Mr. O'Brien's annual pronouncement to see what has been what in the short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...
...favorites of Meyerbeer, Verdi and Rossini there is an appeal which no lover of music can resist. All three composers attain moments of depth. Nevertheless when I want music which I know will have the effect of satisfying me completely I turn to Wagner. I love the Ring of the Nigbelingen and am never quite certain which individual opera stands foremost in my affections. 'Die Walkure', judging from the number of times it has been produced, is probably the popular favorite. The role of Brunnhilde is a beautiful one. Other singers than the great Johanna Gadski have attained fame...