Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
...referendum of the society to see if it thought the index was a good idea, seized the opportunity to abuse Mr. Schwab and these associates: "Inconceivable ignorance . . . flagrant instance of inattention . . . heedlessness of duty. . . ." Reason for Justice Black's fury was their inability to remember what happened. "Rip Van Winkling," said Justice Black, shaking his head, "is no defense...
Last week the Ellensburg frogs were becoming as talked about as the jumping frog of Calaveras County. From accredited scientists came serious assertions that they might be so many Rip van Winkles. Geologist George Beck of Ellensburg's State Normal School went to the Jordan home to see the monsters, said that these frogs might be early Eocene Age. "Just like seeing angels," he exclaimed...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...Japanese vanguard, then only a few hundred yards distant. When a pedestrian warned him of his peril he turned swiftly about and dashed in the opposite direction. Suddenly he leaped from his bicycle and threw himself at a civilian and when I last saw him he was trying to rip the clothes from the man's back, at the same time shedding his own uniform...