Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only $15 wood-burning stoves for heat, were obviously unsuited to the region's sub-zero winters. Whatever the reason, ten architects and draftsmen were brought from New York and under their direction workmen began to rip up the completed houses, dig cellars, add new wings, sunrooms, dining alcoves, fireplaces, porches. Thereafter two sectors of men labored in Reedsville. Sector I set up the ready-cut houses as they arrived, according to original specifications. Sector II tore apart the houses erected by Sector I, rebuilt them according...
...Hartford last week, at its first public exhibition, the Warburg-Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
...carrying tides of dense ionization, like a jet of water pouring over a round ball. But the Earth-ball is also rotating. Where the expanding waves go in the direction of rotation the wave-front is smooth; where they go against it they are like whitecaps in a tide rip...
What stirred the Administration to one more desperate effort to save its oil program from complete collapse was the rip-roaring gasoline price-war which, from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, made motoring a joy (TIME...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...