Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosie O'Grady" at the Majestic opens up in unpromising fashion. The Irish hero about to leave ould Ireland is disclosed sobbing lustily on his mother's shoulder, "Oh, mither, mither," while the old lady in turn sobs back, "Oh, me bye, me bye." In this strain of ripe old-fashioned Irish sentiment, the piece continues until the closing scene in which the two are reu- shakeup occurred in the line. Captain McMillan was the only man to remain a regular, and he was shifted to Crago's position at guard, with Bartell, who had been playing end early...
...again elected to Congress, as a Democrat from Toledo. For 14 years continuously he sat in the House of Representatives. But in the Harding landslide of 1920 he was defeated. In 1921 at the ripe age of 86 he left the halls of Congress. But he was not done. Eighteen months later, campaigning with pristine vigor of mind, he won his way back, reelected. He sat for two years more, and a year ago decided that he had had enough. Last February he made his farewell address to the House...
...absence of male society, feverish unrest at times approaching hysteria moves among these healthy females. But the mysterious conception of a child by one ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...
...protests similar to that of Subscriber Guthe have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as "... ripe fruit juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
...first of the magazine. With the amount of advertising which TIME now carries, it is felt that the magazine would be better balanced with a certain amount : advertising placed in the front. True, TIME is in business for profit - enough profit so that it, like subscriber Smith, may grow ripe with years. But it does not toady to advertisers. TIME aims to maintain editorial independence by maintaining financial independence...