Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days of his pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...
...other attainments are attested by an anecdote: At a druggists' convention in St. Louis some years ago, a bout between two professional boxers was part of the entertainment. The winner of the bout offered to take on any one of the spectators. Louis K. Liggett stepped into the ring. After two rounds, the professional declined to continue...
...16th revival of the Bayreuth festival, the second since the War, opened last week with Die Meistersinger. Parsifal followed, then the Ring. Wagnerites crowded the town to capacity, enthused over the general excellence of the performances. New hope was born in Manhattan operagoers with the appearance of Tenor Lauritz Melchior, an able actor with a good voice, who will come next year to the Metropolitan Opera House to help relieve the nasal Tenors Rudolf Laubenthal and Curt Taucher...
...sheets of paper each with an alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle...
Disgraceful. A crowd in Newark, N. J., hooted and jeered. Ringside humorists expressed the idea that they had come to see a boxing match, not a pillow fight between a couple of roommates. In the center of the ring Paul Berlenbach, cloudy-faced Light Heavyweight Champion, stood with his huge arms around Tony Marullo, New Orleans fondler. Now and then they stepped apart, dealt each other coy fillips. The referee warned the fighters against petting. They did not heed. Customers' catcalls grew louder. At length the referee ended the disgraceful scene, ordered both from the ring...