Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to say this country is ripe for such ideas now and still less for their execution. Therefore I shall not press such Bolshevistic suggestions but merely record them in order that I may some day have that supreme pleasure, if I live long enough, of saying 'I told...
...half a century, perhaps . . . New York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things must ripen. And then New York will drop away. Its vast population will move southward. There will be no coal to keep the millions warm here. . . . All of this that we are building will mean nothing except something for men to remember for a thousand years-the great...
...Cherries are Ripe" purports to be, and who would gainsay it, a risque, but restrained, comedy of sophisticated Budapest as it acts for a day in the country. The only thing jibing with this reviewer's quaint idea of what is Budapestian is Vilma Banky, and she is accordingly honored only because he read in the program that she was born in those parts. Rod La Roque is not quite up to his movie standard, which was unpleasant enough, anyway...
...Baron Stereny as one-with-a-way, as one who can take seduction or leave it alone, who regards adultery as a fine art, not a plaything for children. So he asks him to practice his wiles on the Baroness and if successful, to wire him "cherries are ripe." If feminine demureness prove the winner, the telegram is to read "cherries are sour." Sandor sets about his caddish work, and with La Roquian aplomb, reduces seduction to an absurdity. It is significant that the climax of the plot is reached only as the final curtain falls, presumably either to keep...
...ways of the money market, Undersecretary Mills called him in to help determine just how the Treasury should borrow this huge sum with the least disturbance to public credit. Mr. Burgess brought word that the New York bond market, having recovered from its first Bonus scare, was ripe for a U. S. notation. Mr. Mills agreed; the Treasury would put part of its offering in bonds...