Word: kipness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
...Everywhere comment was the same," cabled Kip Finch, Manager of TIME'S Overseas Editions. "At the ATC Depot in the Place Vendome six G.I.s and a lieutenant grabbed for copies. And when they noticed the date on the cover they 'really gawked; they hadn't seen .an American magazine later than March. As I went on I looked back and there on their blanket rolls sat the seven soldiers with their heads buried in seven copies of TIME-oblivious even of the passing Parisiennes...
Chosen to fill Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman's job as New Yorker book reviewer (TIME, Sept. 27) was intellectually supercharged Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 48, whose reputation as a critic is perhaps overshadowed only by that of T.S. Eliot...