Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ripper's first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...
...piloting Poetess Muriel Rukeyser, on the life and modern significance of bearded U. S. Abolitionist John Brown, coupled with verses from the Civil War folk song John Brown's Body. Scattered through the carefully etched text were some 40 meticulous illustrations by Austrian refugee Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper (TIME, Jan. 2, 1939), who had engraved the entire book by hand...
Weedy, bucktoothed, wild-eyed Baron von Ripper, who gave Poetess Rukeyser the idea for her poem, had worked at his book with the zeal of a medieval monk. A Catholic socialist who had spent months in Nazi concentration camps, von Ripper knew persecution at first hand. He filled his book with floggings, cadaverous nudes, autopsical goons, who hacked and bled through its pages with all the angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn...
...Wagner reminded the Senate that: 1) none of the three members of the Smith committee who sponsored the "ripper" amendments had fought for the original Act, and that Chairman Howard Smith had strongly opposed it; 2) the Smith investigation resolution ignored facts when it preambled: "There has been an alarming increase in strikes and labor disputes generally...