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Word: ringers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin, '39, undertakes to show that Richard Henry Lee, revolutionary father, was the forgotten begetter of the Bill of Rights. "Government and the Farmer" by Edwin F. Ringer is a competent and compact review of the problems of American agricultural policy, though not startling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot in a picket line; Trick-Roper Gene McLaughlin, 7, of Del Rio, Tex. performing with his brother Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible socialite herself. Before this situation, complicated by the fact that Paula falls in love with Townsend and Cynthia is determined to marry Brewster, is worked out, Artists & Models presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Varro would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nero's Double | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Following the matches, which were closely played and in which Ken I. Scutemin, belived to be a Yale ringer imported from Princeton was the winner, the Harvard captain announced he would place a petition asking that the sport be made a major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIDDLEDY-WINKERS LOSE | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

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