Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...described as "an engaging little cuss." Paddy Barrie, an ex-jockey of Scotch extraction who professed to have ridden in two Grand Nationals and to have collaborated on newspaper articles with the late Author Edgar Wallace, told all about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general: "It's the softest thing in the world to ring a horse, but it's a racket, like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...
...should appoint a reformer to the office that person would be able to help Seabury considerably in his further investigations. Cleveland insured his election to the White House by bucking Tammany, and Charles Evans Hughes made his reputation when he opposed the New York insurance ring. A definite stand against Tammany Hall might corroborate rather than weaken his position...
...barely beaten for best in the show. Two weeks later, at Manchester, he beat the cocker spaniel who had nosed him out in London and has not been defeated since. In the last two years he has won 300 ribbons. As brilliant in action as he is in the ring, Nancolleth Markable last October won the South of England field trials. A month later, with his sister, Nancolleth Beryl, he was bought by Mrs. Dodge...
...Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences, is present at all functions. Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope's private library. There Il Duce knelt solemnly, kissed not the toe but the Ring of the Fisherman. They chatted 55 minutes, which was considered something of a record...