Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schussboomer leaned back in his chair and gently blow a smoke ring toward the hat Rack. With a slight tinkle it landed for a perfect ringer, and the old master went on with his tale...
There's blood on the drinking fountains of the Blockhouse boxing room these days, as more than 70 ring tyros complete two and one-half months of instruction and hew themselves into shape for House and University championship bouts...
...veterans of last year's fistic carnival will be in the ring this week and next. Tommy Rodgers, one-armed pile-driver who flailed his way to the 155-pound crown last spring, will be defending his laurels against what Lamar terms "a strong field...
...Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell her "it was Father Ring she should have married," he refrains because he knows that "in time she'd be bound to confess it. There is nothing a good-living woman likes better than to confess her husband's sins." And when this same unfortunate husband is asked by a continental European...
Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...