Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essay signed "A Student" apparently had been penned by one of the young editors. Excerpts: "Sounding trumpet-calls to youth is a sorry and futile gesture. . . . With the time ripe as it hasn't been in 150 years for youth really to start something, to organize and make its influence felt, nothing will happen...
...Ripe and Green Olives Celery...
...that a change in the social order is desirable and necessary. The so-called liberal club at City College was not a fact-finding organization seeking after the truth. It was connected in various ways with the Communist party, a party which believes that the time will soon be ripe to destroy by violence all existing political institutions in order to make way for a new and better world. The existing governments, including the government of the City of New York, can hardly be expected to look forward to their own violent destruction with equanimity...
From his observation and ripe reflection the Vagabond draws this conclusion: that, with the probable exception of life at Versailles in the reign of the Sun God, there never existed a more vacant, unintelligent, wasteful, slack, stupid, unsound, decayed, vapid, altogether delightful way for a young woman of ability and beauty to spend her evenings and sleep her mornings. The three cousins and the two dear friends have never quite agreed with the Vagabond, but then neither will Anne-whom Aristotle would call the efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that...
...which the Vagabond, like Mr. Hardy and his cookoo, prefers. For the autumn rain has been upon us, and left the chill of autumn in the air. Summer is alive in his mind but the Vagabond turns a speculative eye on the orchards where the russet apples are growing ripe. Over the moors by the sea the gulls are still crying, but the sandpiper is gone from the shore. The sea-weed sways among the brown rocks, and the sun goes down in purple...