Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goethe. Only ultra-squeamish Goethe admirers belittle the major fact that from early youth to ripe old age Goethe drew what he called his inspiration from a series of women, very few of whom were intellectual and only one of whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius...
...history in China. Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa talked for two hours with him, told him of all the diplomatic stir caused by Japan's action at Shanghai. Then the ancient Genro hurried to report the conversation to his Emperor and receive his instructions. Never was the old man's ripe wisdom so urgently needed...
...into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul the Vagabond can not believe this. Somewhere under a $19.50, double-breasted, peaked-lapelled coat he knows that there beats a heart-of-gold ripe for adventure...
...changes in the Engineering School are forthcoming they should be far reaching. The time is ripe for them...
...Harbourmaster is a ripe book; no young man could have written it. It is full of humor, tolerance and a kind of cool dogmatism that you may more than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto...