Word: rip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American fables that an old man once climbed up into the Catskill Mountains and slept there for twenty years. Young children have kicked their heels before an open fire as mothers read them the tale of Rip Van Winkle. Barefooted urchins with long bamboo poles have wondered at the persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days...
...Angeles, Calif., the faculty of Bancroft Junior High School outlawed, under penalty of expulsion, a popular student game called rip-the-zipper, in which any student spying a shirt, trouser or skirt fastened with a zipper would cry: "Rip the zipper!'' and zip the garment open...
...just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine's expression changed...
...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...
...hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...