Word: ripper
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...essence of the story was the landlady's concern -- is her lodges Jack the Ripper or not? And when he went out at night, I had a special staircase built right at the top of the studio. I had the whole four flights built, and all you saw was the white hand going down the rail as he went out. And that's when it first started...
...coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation," he chided him for "the errors of your logic," and signed off as "Your venerable friend...
...David among Goliaths-yet he could be the most philistine of men. He called himself "a grain of sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last...
Among our college generation, war is unpleasant to contemplate, unfashionable to defend, and seems uncomfortably close. And as a consequence, military types are not afforded too many looks of glazed admiration. They tend to raise visions of General Jack D. Ripper and have suspect...
...years the stand-by of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., the world's largest tractor maker, was the basic tractor-a kind of Model T. But Caterpillar has steadily diversified in recent years, now sells 140 different varieties, from a clawlike ripper that crushes rocks to a road scraper that gulps 66 tons of dirt in 42 seconds. Last week the man responsible for this transformation showed just how good it has been for Caterpillar's business: Chairman Harmon S. Eberhard, 64, announced that first-half sales and profits were the highest in the company's 39-year...