Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking law, and Burton K. Wheeler, thorough Montana gentleman, political radical, 1924 candidate for Vice President on the LaFollette ticket, strode toward each other with infernal fire in their respective eyes...
...Ripe, laughing wenches-half a score of them-took turns at dancing with their future King and Emperor when Edward of Wales visited the excessively plebeian Lambeth Carnival one night last week, and later moved on to quaff punch with sailors and their dolls at the Union Jack Club...
Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...
...nearly 18 years Harvard University has grown and prospered under your presidency. You brought to your high office ripe experience of public service, of teaching, of scholarship, and above all a clear vision of what this University may accomplish in leading its students to love learning, and the wisdom to discern the way. Under your leadership, scholarly attainment has become more attractive to young men here than ever before; and every part of the University has profited thereby. From the College now go each year into our graduate schools large groups of young men who have already distinguished themselves...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...