Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...
...great figures in history chiefly to gain the man's opinion of the events in which he figured, not to be regaled by philosophical abstractions. When a man passes eighty years, as M. Clemenceau has, the fruit of his abstract meditations is more than likely to be over-ripe...
Another Errol specialty vouchsafed is the cluttered, fumbling attempt to gather an armful of packages. Ripe pantomimic art raises this above the level of the five-a-day variety. Mr. Errol's groping hands are beautifully pusillanimous...
...infant . . . ripe for the gallows...
This kind of thing, of course, flows as logically and as naturally from William's brain as does milk from a ripe coconut. Real touches of the ancient Imperial and Royal bombast are contained in the following excerpts...