Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...
...true of many Mexicans, the seat of Avila Camacho's attraction is his eyes. They are brown and full of comradely humor. His body is vaguely reminiscent of various ripe fruits-his face of a pear, his torso of a papaya. Last week the sophisticated began calling him El Buchudo, he of the double chin. Pudgy though he is, Avila Camacho keeps himself in good condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps...
Borrowing a new stake, Jesse returned to the stockmarket. For six weeks he watched World War I boost Bethlehem Steel upward until he knew that it was ripe. The day after he climbed aboard it had jumped 45 points. He was hot. Within two years he bulled and beared himself into a profit of some...
...sent him running up & down 15 flights of stairs. Still whiskey, etc. would send him into his dance. Nothing would cure him. He finally packed up and went home, resolved never to touch a drop again. One thing that consoled him: his leaping great-grandfather had lived to the ripe age of 87; his great-aunt, 72, and great-uncle, 81, were still dancing around the old homestead in the South...
Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges the earnestness and honesty of Muckrakeress Tarbell's book. But he has long thought that the time was ripe for a reappraisal of John D. Rockefeller Sr. in line with later, less emotional understanding of the nature and function of trusts. Last week he made this appraisal in an exhaustive, intelligent, scrupulously just, lucidly written biography of John D. About half of Volume I describes his poor but honest boyhood in Tioga County, N. Y., his thrifty, God-fearing young manhood in Cleveland, Ohio. About half of Volume II describes his closing years of good...