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Word: ripely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Query | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when he bumped into the late Bartender Tammen and was persuaded that Denver was ripe for a killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in Denver | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...very glad I selected them for in every one of them I have benefited greatly in the development of my work by the experience gained." In analysis, her playing these parts is not inconsistent with her classic role in last week's Lucrece; they were intense characterizations, rich ripe melodramatics to test the mettle of a serious tragedienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Seven Minds & Four Cultures | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Christmas Chancellor | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...most important objectives of the international economic conference depends to a large extent on the incoming American administration. The prohibitive tariff has been tentatively repudiated by the electorate, the war debt tangle is reduced to a choice between revising the debts or having them repudiated. The time is ripe for Mr. Roosevelt's "new deal," applied to American foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE | 12/6/1932 | See Source »

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