Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison triumphantly announced more steps toward the nationalization of British industries. He added Britain's gas and electric utilities, railroads and other inland...
...Zenith. Two years after Main Street, Novelist Lewis did a similar job for the U.S. small city (Zenith) and the U.S. businessman. George F. Babbitt, the rotund realtor, trapped in the dilemmas of middle-aged marriage and infidelity and the saurian rip and slash of pitiless business competition, was Lewis' most human and lovable character, as Babbitt was his most mature work...
...Fourth of the writing Mowrers: Edgar's wife Lilian (Journalist's Wife, Arrest and Exile, Rip Tide of Aggression...
...Boom? That there is a rip roaring building boom in the making was plain to everyone. But it was equally plain that a sudden rise in prices would take the steam out of the boom. Armed with the latest and one of the most comprehensive of building surveys, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM drove that point home this week. The FORUM found that 2,778,000 families are "good prospects" to buy or build houses. Some 70% of them plan to spend less than $8,000 and more than half of them have the cash in the bank or in War Bonds...
...first-rate group of 19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...