Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberty Bell began to ring, for the first time since 1835 when it rang John Marshall to his grave and cracked?rang with about 80% of its former tone volume. Station WIP broadcast its clangor. The Liberty Bell rang again, rang in the New Year of 1926, rang in the 150th year since the signing of the famed Declaration, rang in the year in which Philadelphia plans to hold an exposition, a sesquicentennial...
...Monkey Talks. From France a play of circus life came, saw and only partly conquered. The monkey is a man who apes the ape and fools the public in the sawdust ring. So astonishingly authentic are his make-up and his gestures that the play is at once credible. For this all credit to Jacques Lerner, French actor imported for the role...
...Blunt and caustic argot of the prize ring injected into the seemly quietude of a Fifth Avenue home...
...library, a promenade interrupted by the greeting of the Swiss Guards and the gendarmes at the Vatican entrance, in the Court of St. Damascus, and in Clementine Hall. In the library the Cardinal started to fall on his knees at the Pope's feet to kiss the pontifical ring, but this the Pope prevented, embracing the Cardinal in fatherly affection...
...order to get favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...