Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democrat Leo V. Tumelty of Philadelphia introduced a resolution to "remove or rip the statue of Boies Penrose from the lawn of the Capitol and offer it to either Maine or Vermont." The memorial to Pennsylvania's late Republican Boss, declared he, "appears to be sneering...
...lose his throne. England can not have such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves...
Last week neither Damrosch's music nor Guiterman's libretto could make their two-act opera entirely successful. Ignoring the possibilities of a rip-snorting plot, the score abounded in old turns and phrases, was at its best when it borrowed obviously from Wagner. Set songs were brought off skilfully but they often sounded banal. The text was happy, fitted the music better than most U. S. operas permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously...
Opened last week by the arrival of the season's first boat was a rip-snorting gold rush into the Goodnews area of southwestern Alaska. In three days no less than 50 airplane flights were made from Anchorage, bearing prospectors to the sands of Kuskokwim Bay, where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles...
...Congress the two currents met at last in a genuine rip tide of debate...