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Word: rippings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...leaves everybody pretty badly off and presumptively the better for it. The catalog of the Kayne misadventures concludes when old Peter, while his house is being sold over his head, succumbs to apoplexy so violently as to rip away a tapestry revealing the words: Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it. Among other things, that is Mr. Train's text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pirates and Flappers* | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...death of Frank Bacon last Sunday closed a career that was notable in an era of stage notabilities. Surely no man since Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkel" has been seen by so many people in a single part, and no part has held a place of warmer affection than that of Lightnin' Bill Jones. "Lightnin'", along with "The Bat", will be a by-word for theatrical success long after both plays are discarded. The fact that the play itself was hardly worth the candle of Bacon's personality makes his achievement all the more interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/22/1922 | See Source »

Gilbert Frankau who, in writhing "Peter Lameson" sprang into the forefornt of British novelists of the war period, has rip his fortune again in "Seeds of enchantment" a move of Indo-China. The set to Frank Danby. Mr. rankau has had a unusual variety of experience, ranging from presidency of a large corporation in England to travel in most of strange corners of the world. He has been hailed by Rudyard killing as the coming British novelist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH THE PUBLISHERS | 5/6/1921 | See Source »

...Look at the way we smash and rip 'em through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERITAS | 11/20/1920 | See Source »

...Look at the way we smash and rip 'em through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERITAS | 11/19/1920 | See Source »

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