Word: ripping
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When all bets are made, the two fish are dumped into one big bowl together. They charge furiously. First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard. Next to go is the red top fin which looks like a reversed mainsail. Frequently they bite off chunks of side meat, draw blood...
...backstage triangle with a "mother angle" thrown in to key up the sentiment. Jolson does a drunk scene and sings many times. The tunes are better than some of Berlin's, but not so good as the old favorites Jolson sings again: "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?" "The Albany Night Boat," and an even older one, shuffled to by thousands of dancing feet, planged from the banjo hearts of ten thousand nickelodeons- ''Pretty Baby." Most expected shot: Jolson enveloped in the arms of his mother (Louise Dresser) on a station platform...
When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...
Over the portal of the rip-snorting Denver Post, the late part-owner H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, is credited with having had inscribed: "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place...
...blinding rainstorm, in a gale strong enough to rip a ton of masonry from the grey and gothic west front of famed York Minster, Edward of Wales last week boarded the S. S. Kenilworth Castle at Southampton Docks, bound for Africa to resume the big game hunt which was interrupted 13 months ago by the critical illness of George V. Announced objective: the shooting of a two-horned rhinoceros, two or three male lions (H. R. H.'s previous bag contained only lionesses...