Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas v. Rip van Winkle. In Room 915 of Peoria's Pere Marquette Hotel, Paul Douglas arose at 8 a.m. after eight hours' sleep. He did some paper work, looked over a speech, then drove out to deliver it to the Illinois State Federation of Labor at the Peoria armory. As he has for nearly two years, he bore down heavily on the Illinois economic situation...
Woodstock, N.Y. is one of the nation's prettiest, homiest and most distinguished art colonies. Its steep hillsides, near where Rip Van Winkle boozed with wilderness ghosts, are patched now with fallow fields. Each "farm" has its barn, and almost every barn conceals an artist's studio. Last week a little of the harvest from those barns was on exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association Gallery. It made a conservative but sunny display. Most Woodstock painters seem to like picturing pleasant things in more or less understandable fashion. (Advance-guardists go elsewhere, chiefly to East Hampton...
Minor tremors over the past several months gave warning of the shock that was to rip the Federal Housing Administration wide open. It was common knowledge throughout the agency that something was up; T-men and FBI agents had made repeated visits, checked books, collected data. Finally, on Monday, April 12, the government acted: Guy T. Hollyday, chief of the FHA, was dismissed. The normally staid New York Times reached a pitch of near hysteria in reporting, "FHA Chief Out--Frauds Charged--U.S. Opens Study--Files to be Siezed." In an orgy of political moralizing, the press called up spectres...
...signed up at Yale's engineering school, but gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...
...criticism, and, in passing, he had to reprove Joe McCarthy and take account of McCarthy's gutter tactics. Nixon handled the assignment with dignity and dispatch. He and the President had agreed in advance, he said, "that this issue is too important to answer in kind with a rip-roaring political tirade before a cheering partisan audience...