Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Prospects are bad. Everyone admitted in Berlin last week that the current German unemployment and depression will mean big electoral gains for the "extremist parties," Communists & Fascists. Most unfortunate of all the prestige of Old Paul has suffered. Month ago it would have seemed incredible that the Reichstag should ring with cries of "Down with Hindenburg!" Perhaps, however, the deputies were chiefly irate because, being now no longer deputies, they have lost such pleasant hot weather privileges as unlimited, free, first-class rides on the German State Railways...
...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
Spain's most popular fighter is now Joaquin Rodriquez, nicknamed "Cagan- cho" (nightingale) because his father was a famed Flamenco singer. An obscure gypsy, Rodriquez entered the ring five years ago, left under a shower of miscellaneous objects (U. S. equivalent: pop bottles). Subsequent triumphs made him so popular that he is now trailed about the streets by mobs of adorers...
...interludes is so sophisticated as to become practically unintelligible to most spectators. At one point the stage is filled with grotesque figures garbed as inhabitants of the "Planet X," who burst into an inexplicable ditty about "The March of Time." Even more confused is the 20-min scene "Freedom Ring," which closes Act I. Here several score of young women prance up and down the boards antiphonally chanting "Prohibition! Prohibition!" occasionally leaving the stage free for other mummers to deliver pithy orations against the 18th Amendment. The scenes for these philippics are laid in various U. S. historical spots...
Michael Faraday set to work in the field of electricity not as a dilettante but as a common laborer. He had to discover almost everything that he wanted to know. Of his greatest discovery, which ultimately resulted in the electric generator, he wrote: ". . . had an iron ring made. . . . Wound it with many coils of copper wire, one-half of them being separated by twine and calico. When all was ready . . . the battery was communicated with [the end of one coil]. . . . The helix strongly attracted the needle of [a galvanometre...