Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drew from the corral were spiritless. They died more in sorrow than in anger, gave him small chance to display his talents. More successful was another novillero, a handsome 19-year-old boy billed as Liceaga. Liceaga's first bull was small but excessively pugnacious. Stepping in the ring he displayed great showmanship by flourishing his muleta, dedicating the bull and throwing his hat to George Godfrey, huge U. S. blackamoor heavyweight fighter, who sat in a ringside...
...World, where it shared the feature page with Heywood Broun and Critic Alexander Woolcott until they departed. The Tower's following is a loyal one and accounts for much of the World's circulation among sophisticates. Famed contributors include Colyumist Adams' good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria...
...modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles and window ledges. His voice, entirely different from his radio tones of two years ago, has the drawling, nasal twang that is the mode among the smart people who are his friends offstage, but that has not quite the ring of naturalness...
...State and Navy Departments of the U. S. frown on the practice of tauromachy, or the art of bullfighting, by U. S. official representatives. But when Major Peter C. Geyer Jr., U. S. M. C., naval attache to the Legation at Tegucigalpa killed a bull in a bull ring last week, the State and Navy departments were pleased. Explanation...
...Holiness the Pope, arranged last week to telephone a Christmas greeting from the Pope to the U. S., via the Manhattan bureau of the United Press. Delighted U. P. officials made plans to be at their offices before breakfast, for Cardinal Pacelli's plan was to ring up about lunch time in Rome...