Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Dr. Gaona put on a private show that aficionados were sorry they missed. To learn why one of Sunday's bulls had been rejected by the fighters as too tame, Dr. Gaona took a muleta, went into the ring with the bull. The bull promptly charged, hooked him, tossed him twice into the air. He punctured Dr. Gaona's natty pants and gored him. Aficionados read the details later in their papers: a wound four centimeters deep by seven long in the right cheek rear, another six centimeters long by four deep in the left cheek...
...plot, about all Father had was Mother's determination to get Father baptized. Mother turns on nothing more momentous-simply Mother's determination to get a 22-year-overdue engagement ring; but it somehow seems much more cooked up. For Father had soured on engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...
Before last week, orderly, freedom-loving Uruguayans had about persuaded themselves that their Communists were different. Then the U.S. movie, The Iron Curtain, story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, came to Montevideo, and Uruguay's Commies broke the spell. About 200 of them turned up at Montevideo's Trocadero theater and made an unseemly rough house. They lobbed tar at the screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back...
Casey is reportedly one of the models for Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike characters, and when he got the job last week, Manhattan columnists all rushed to their typewriters to tell what a funny man he was. They obviously couldn't do him justice: his kind of deadpan, spun-out comedy was hard to describe. Grinning with happy memories, the columnists tried to tell how funny it was the time Casey purposely disappeared into a manhole in centerfield, or the time Casey tipped his cap to an umpire, and out flew a sparrow...
...April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped 1,500), hoped to catch up by next April, when its output (now 150 cars a day) should hit 300. Peugeot, privately...