Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fabiola" drags along slowly until the very end. But a rip-roaring finale in which literally hundreds of Christians are burned, tortured, and easten by lions in the Roman Coliseum makes the film worth easily three times the price of admission...
Puccini: The Girl of the Golden West (Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Ugo Savarese, baritone; Vasco Campagnano, tenor, and others; chorus and orchestra of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's "western" may have been rip-roaring stuff at its premiere at the Met in 1910, with Caruso singing and Toscanini conducting, but it sounds pretty flat now. Performance and recording: good...
Football star Jeff Fleischmann and basketball player Red Chadwick lead the Big Red in batting; Rip Haley and Billy Whelan are exceptionally fast on the bases...
Midfielders Post, Rip Lynch, and Ed Thayer and attackmen Hudner and Baldwin played some of their best ball to date, and Clark turned in a brilliant clearing...
...rugged, fast Navy team had little trouble beating a tired varsity, 14 to 3, on April 4 at Annapolis. It was a costly game for the Crimson: midfielder Rip Lynch hurt a shoulder and was lost for the rest of the trip; Huebsch also injured a shoulder, but was out for only one game, Despite the high score, goalie Syd Clark excelled making 31 saves, many of them difficult...