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Word: ripper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...evening they celebrated the political demise of John D. Williams, head of the highway commission, whose removal was necessary for the passage of Mr. Stephenson's "road ripper" bill. With solemn reeling the Grand Dragon pronounced the rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...indeed should not Carol pilot a supercharged space-ripper at Atlantic City? For some hours there seemed to be no answer to this question. Then Carol's secretary regretfully announced that "for unknown reasons" the American Automobile Association would not grant a racing driver's license to "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carol v. A. A. A. | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Gladstone v. Disraeli | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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