Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crooner Bing Crosby and 29,427 other baseball fans shivered in their topcoats. Said Bing: "This ain't fit weather . . . they ought to throw put a football." The thing that Rip ("Blooper Ball") Sewell tossed at the Chicago Cubs may have looked like a football but it wasn't, and Crosby's Pirates (Bing owns about 20% of the Pittsburgh club) won their opening game...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...Rip a fender off your...
...Such rip-roaring speed was clearly impossible, as the Senate demonstrated last week. It took two days and most of a night session to debate a proposed constitutional amendment to bar a presidential third term. Then the G.O.P. leadership frittered away the rest of its first night session discussing not issues, but agenda, barely squeezing in a vote (59-to-23) to pass the third-term...
...cattle baron (Lionel Barrymore) lives in a pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...