Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
Peddie's longtime Headmaster Roger Williams Swetland died of ripe old age last autumn. In 36 years he had covered the campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm...
With an abundance of verbal wisteria, April works its spell upon them all. The firm hand on the teapot relaxes. As the moon swings to the full, Miss Harding's luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks...
...thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak for the nation when he said, with a shrug: "That revolution was nothing. It was not bloody. It was only like an orange, which falls when it is very ripe. No trouble, no trouble at all. The people of Cadiz, sir, are always reformers. They had been waiting for it how long? and then the day came. Then they went into the streets. People must go into the streets when there is a revolution, a fiesta. Certainly there...
Sophisticated bankers asked for no more. But they were disappointed that President Roosevelt did not grasp more firmly the hand that Banker Reynolds had so handsomely extended. The President did not even acknowledge Banker Reynolds' speech. All he said was: "The time is ripe for an alliance of all forces intent upon the business of recovery. In such an alliance will be found business and banking, agriculture and industry, and labor and capital. What an all-American team that...