Word: rip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street last week was being circulated, as a joke, a table of figures which made investors wince. It told of a Rip van Winkle who in August 1929 sold ten shares of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at $298!, putting the $2,986.25 in a savings bank. Recently he bought back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave...
Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...
Died. Mrs. Lewis Morrison (Rose Wood), 82, oldtime actress, grandmother of the cinemacting Sisters Bennett (Constance, Barbara & Joan); of old age; in Tenafly, N. J. She played many a leading role with Joseph Jefferson in such productions as Rip Van Winkle, The Rivals, starred in Lester Wallack's stock company...
...went well until the game with Lake Shore in Chicago. There it was discovered that they were playing the Capone outfit. Perhaps you can guess the conclusion. It puts the finishing touches to the best rip-roaring yarn for many years. But read it for yourself...
...living only last November in New York City (where Eamon de Valera was born). American money in a grand old Irish way makes Irish history, has made it for 90 years. But Tipperary elected Dan Breen last week just because he is such a rip-roaring ould bouchal. Twenty actual times the British have put actual bullets into him. On Dan's head His Majesty's Government once had a price of ?10,000 ($48.600 then) for his capture...