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Word: ripley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, for Stanford, set the N.A.A. low hurdle record of 20 seconds. He ran the hurdles for the U.S. in the 1916 Norway Olympics, and in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. But Feg's business now is seeing Hollywood stars in the Ripley "Believe-It-Or-Not" manner. And in Hollywood he finds things even Ripley misses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star Gazer | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

...Believe It or Not'] Ripley is a Bachelor" was Bachelor's first featured interview. (Ripley's reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Mirror, Bible | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...meeting yesterday the Flying Club elected officers for the next year. As President Clarence D. Martin, Jr. '39 was chosen; Vice-President, James K. Davis '38; Secretary, Ripley O. Jones '39; Treasurer, Arthur W. Nelson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club Chooses Martin As Leader for Coming Year | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

...drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade, took the matter to court with the backing of other "red-carded" stores and the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association. Confirmed last week were the findings of Special Master Ripley Dana that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dress Peace | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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