Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning as a Council insideman last Wednesday and just got my sheen off without really getting a chance to hop in and wade around a bit. "Perfunctory" because I was outbralled by a "colorful" speaker (Merwin K. Hart) in the chamber above and didn't learn that the three-ring Student Council show was aprogress below until a shirtsleoved and weary messenger appeared and gave me the word. Upon finally arriving at the scene of the plotting, I got into the feel of the thing a bit but rather expect that future Council meetings will be more comprehensible and, hence...
...once the British were not the villains of the piece. And, with their favorite bait removed from the ring, most Irishmen were at a loss to tell what the fight was about at all. "This," wrote the Dublin correspondent of London's News Chronicle, as 1,800,000 Irishmen prepared to go to the polls this week, "is the strangest general election that ever took place. Nobody wants it. Nobody knows what it's about, and nobody, except the candidates, seems to care how it will...
...Treasury Agents Dennis O'Keefe and Alfred Ryder crack a counterfeit ring in a busy, biting melodrama (TIME...
...Biddeford, Me., a carpenter named Alfred Beaudoin was awarded $1,000 in damages against a sports promoter after he told a jury that, at one of the promoter's wrestling shows, a lady wrestler, twice tossed out of the ring by her opponent, twice landed on him. The first time, Beaudoin helped the lady climb back. The second time, he was hauled away to a hospital with a broken collar bone...
...great outdoors' Bernarr Macfadden, 79, scaled his hat into the ring for Governor of Florida. He had no platform yet, said the everlasting strength-through-carrots-and-sex champion, but: "Naturally I will play up in a big way the health angle...