Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have their telling effect. A telegram was received before the football season last year as follows: "Harvard CRIMSON stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition stop claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch...
...favorite for long with Argentine circusgoers was "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." A swarthy, stocky Italian, Corpse Blackamon favored satin turbans and gaudy oriental robes, fascinated the steeply banked audiences in Buenos Aires' permanent single-ring circus by sticking pins through his cheeks and arms. Invariably he climaxed his performance by shuddering, screaming, and going into a trance. Uniformed attendants lifted the rigid Blackamon into a specially prepared glass-faced coffin, buried him eight feet deep in the sandy floor of the circus ring. For three hours he would remain there while clowns tumbled and horses cantered above...
Georges Carpentier, French onetime fisticuffer, lately cinemactor, traded a portion of ear for a "new" nose. He explained: "When some 200 prize-ring opponents work on your beak, why the old beezer is bound to deteriorate to a point of disadvantage in the pictures...
...their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...
Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut...