Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content to wait for television to convert radio into eye and ear entertainment, U. S. broadcasters strain the microphone by trying to make it report inaudible events at second hand. Sponsors' favorite among the second-hand reporters is Oddities Collector Robert Ripley, whose Believe It Or Not programs have missed only one broadcasting season since...
Harvard at present holds the lead in points with one win by Ripley O. Jones '38 in the paper strafing, he cut the paper streamer three times before it reached the ground. Six other Harvard aviators are slated for participation: Keith Davis, George Fox '38, Whedon Johnson '40, and David Hagedorn, Carl Wickstrom, and George Foote all yardlings this year...
...Ripley O. Jones '39 won the first event of the meet on Saturday, the paper-straffing, in which in 16 seconds he twice cut a streamer of paper which had been dropped from an altitude of 2500 feet. His nearest competitor's time was 23 seconds...
...Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions. Sample: chided by Host Ripley for bringing Manhattan a heat wave, Mayor Stenvig replied: "Why, it's hotter than Hell in New York...
...Ripley. Dr. Graupner explains that his letter was "jotted down" after a group conversation at a club, submitted "in the spirit of fun." He never expected it would appear...