Word: ripping
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...Father Randall, with his brilliantined beard and his hearty manner, took Louise to the stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were being curried. He brought her boxes of Page & Shaw chocolates, got front seats for the Admiral Dewey Parade, took her to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. He told her that all their magnificent house needed was a moat and a drawbridge, and he was going to put them...
...Slim Lauretta Jefferson, great-granddaughter of the late, beloved actor Joe Jefferson (Rip van Winkle), was ready in New York to hit the tanbark as the first ringmistress of Ringling Bros.' new "Continental Circus...
...Honor guest at a newspapermen's jamboree in his home town of Erie, Pa. was Lieut. Colonel Philip G. Cochran. With him was his old Ohio State University chum, Cartoonist Milton Arthur Caniff, who put him into Terry and the Pirates as long-jawed, rip-roaring Flip Corkin. Thirty-three-year-old Fighter Pilot Cochran said that people were always asking him about his girl in the cartoon (Taffy, now No-Name Miss). Of a successful raid he said: "I figured that if I tossed the general staff around some and blew up their headquarters ... it would delay them...
Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...
...Senate, unable (or as yet unwilling) to rise up and oust Donald Nelson as WPBoss, this week passed a bill which would rip away a substantial half of his domain, and hand it over to an entirely new kind of czar-one created by legislation, not by Presidential fiat...