Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil...
...Workingman's Paper" because its mechanical departments are completely unionized and because it is shunned in the silk-stocking areas) gained slowly while the leaders stood still. Home-delivered circulation of all Minneapolis papers totaled only 145,000 in a population of 488,000. The field looked ripe for the sort of circulation ability in which the Cowleses are well versed. They bought the Star for $1,000,000, installed Friend Merwin as publisher with full authority to run the paper his way. Working with General Manager John Thompson and Managing Editor George Adams, he will be free...
...that the town might have done more for the gown during Depression if he had been a bit more mellow. Friends and philosophers, however, are glad that Bob Hutchins has escaped the fate which Critic Carl Van Doren ascribes to Author Christopher Morley: "He got mellow before he got ripe...
...potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
Death Prognosticor. Dr. Felix Bernstein, a German refugee in Manhattan, developed a machine which measures the elasticity of the crystalline lens of the eye. According to the elasticity of a person's lens, Dr. Bernstein can tell whether that person will live (barring infections, disease and accidents) until ripe old age, or will drop dead from heart failure or apoplexy around...