Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmund Gwenn turns in a ripe performance, in the Fyffe role, as a drunken, bragging Scottish father; there are some memorable Technicolored registrations of solemn night skies and sullen landscapes; and the sequences in which the competing dogs work their sheep have a silent, lovely concentration on pure skill that makes the rest of the picture worth idling through. Thunder in the Valley is no Lassie and certainly no To the Victor, but it is a pleasant, gentle retelling of a fine old story...
...advantage of such organization is three-fold. On the side of the solicitors, it will frequently enable them to touch where the money is ripe, and ready to fall on the particular project at hand. On the side of the donators, it will prevent them from being irritated and confused by numerous requests for different projects. And on the side of the University as a whole--in terms of "futures," as Kane calls it--it will tend to keep the influx of money organized and smooth. Today, when the percentage of endowment dollars to expenses is lower than...
...where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
...Torrents of Evening. Edie spends her mornings in a pink satin double bed in her Beverly Hills home, gathering her column over two telephones. Out of the ripe grainfield sown by studio executives, wives, movie stars and pressagents, she may reap 30 or so printable bits. She never goes to studios or press parties, because "they bore the you-know-what out of me." But at night Edie goes everywhere with one of her bewilderingly large number of escorts, considers three parties or as many nightclubs a routine evening. Her nimble tongue can hold its own with Hollywood...
According to the Reverend Mr. Kellogg, the current increase in attendance at Foundation activities can be attributed in part to an increase of interest in religion. He suggests that the late 1930's was not so ripe a period for religion as is the present...