Word: ripleyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tufts' Freshman soccer team was taken over the ropes Saturday by the booting Yardlings, 3-1. The Crimson scores were tallied by forwards Ripley and Cate, while the final goal was the result of a melee before the goal for which no one could receive credit...
...speech pleasantly colored by a tinge of Southern drawl, Harvard's contribution to the profession of Pierrot is Dan M. Pearce '42, of Dunster House and Ripley, Tennessee, whose life has revolved in and around show business for just about as long as he can remember...
...Osborne, who never played before, has the edge at right wing while the left flank is a toss-up between Tom Langner and Bob Makinson. Fred Carr and "Rip" Ripley are fighting it out for the center forward slot, with 10 second man Carr receiving the starting assignment Wednesday...
Died. Dr. William Zebina Ripley, 73, Harvard economist and authority on railroads, longtime foe of big business' secrecy with little shareholders (Main Street and Wall Street), longtime champion of railroad consolidation; in East Edgecombe, Me. Professor of political economy at Harvard from 1901 to 1933, he saw most of the financial reforms he urged finally adopted. When he attacked corporate practices in a magazine article in 1926, stock prices promptly took a dive, and Ripley became widely known as "The Professor Who Jarred Wall Street...
Sued for Divorce. By Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24: Corporal James H. Ripley; a month and a day after their Honolulu marriage; in Hollywood. She sought an annulment at the same time, charging that Ripley hadn't set up a home for her as he had promised...