Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...
...started my first company, I had less than ... we have with our new company. I have always hoped, since my difficulties began, to re-enter the banking business. I feel the time is now ripe. Tremendous fortunes will be made within the next few years by those businessmen who are foresighted enough. . . ." New Rogers Caldwell & Co. expects to have for its slogan: "We bank on the South...
...momentous Uchida speech was made, was to draft a relief program for Japanese farmers who cannot sell their produce, who must pay twice the taxes of city merchants and whose suicide rate has doubled since 1931. At present Japanese prices, a Japanese housewife can buy 41 Ib. of ripe, juicy tomatoes for 10?...
...cottage rented jointly by their families. But this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that some day. . . . But the future gets a forced growth when Philippe meets a ripe lady who has a conveniently neighboring villa. She casts a greedily speculative eye on Philippe's 16-year-old bronzed body. When he brings her flowers, she does the rest. He is horrified, fascinated, sneaks back to her at night, again & again, again. Vinca guesses his secret, confronts...
...Librorum Prohibitorum. If not exactly a manual for Roman Catholics, The Burning Bush should please Catholic palates and doubtless annoy any heffling Protestant literate enough to read it. A sequel to The Wild Orchid, The Burning Bush carries the story of Paul Selmer from young married days to a ripe and disillusioned middle...