Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictator is now a ripe 45 and world-great. But he was only a raw 26 and a nobody, when, with galloping quill, he dashed his novel upon foolscap, in weekly installments, for a Socialist newspaper...
...when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...nations which would follow the extension of the franchise to include women, I cannot but feel that there is reason for a certain disillusionment. . . . Women have not merely failed to demonstrate superior political aptitude to that of men, but at no time have they shown even the promise of ripe statesmanship. . . . The incursion of women into industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
...turns to another sister-in-law, widowed by suicide. She hopes somehow to atone for the abuse beautiful Louise had suffered at the hands of her other brother. The atonement includes sacrificing the man Claire worships with a terrifying first love- Hague, whom Louise endeavors to ensnare with her ripe allure. But neither of them had reckoned with Hague's mature distaste for decadence, or with his vigorous taste for pastels. "Civilization" requires that sentimentality be curbed by humor, strong passion camouflaged by casual words. Author Meynell's is a civilized novel. The story of Claire...
...that the unification of China has been consummated, we think the time is ripe ... to begin at once to negotiate . . . new treaties on the basis of complete equality and mutual respect for each other's sovereignty...