Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it was announced that Liberty bell will ring out across the land, its mellow notes carried by radio, ringing in the New Year, 1926, the 150th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...with theatrical fodder. Is Zat So? deals with prizefighting, and The Poor Nut with a track meet. The fight and the quarter-mile run are exhibited on the stage. Both are successes. Solid Ivory turns to baseball, and borrows in the process something of the slang sorcery of Ring Lardner...
...ourselves quite at home in the new phantastic milien. With a surprise that George M. Cohan might envy, we find Harlequin King again and the ancient, beloved puppets of the commedia dill acte up to their pranks once more. "Hail the carnival!" shouts the resurrected Pierrot, "Beat the drums! Ring the bells! shine triumphantly, sun! Dance golden stars!" But when the play is over these puppets refuse to be packed away in their boxes. For they have come to life, not on the stage of the theatre, but on the stage of life itself. At last they have earned their...
...Grey Iron" carries the reader along securely but gives small indication of the vitality and power attributed to him. The voice of the narrator early loses any ring of conviction, and long before the end seems the voice of one who of necessity relates what holds little interest...
...Blunt and caustic argot of the prize ring injected into the seemly quietude of a Fifth Avenue home...