Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter...
...done most to enhance Diana's Barrymore reputation was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet which she played with her father last winter on Rudy Vallee's radio program. During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud of the job she did. It was a damn good...
...flyer bails out at 35,000 to 40,000 feet and pulls his rip cord at once, he will probably suffocate in the thin-aired substratosphere during the first of the 24 minutes it takes him to float to earth. But if he holds his breath for 30 seconds and plummets a while before opening his parachute, he will retain consciousness...
...Like Rip Van Winkle, utility preferred stocks last week snapped out of a long nap. In the stockmarket they started climbing briskly on greatly increased trading volume. At week's end the senior shares of American & Foreign Power were up two and three points to new 1942 highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year...
This Is The Army. Three hundred soldiers and Irving Berlin put on a rousing, rip-roaring show (TIME, July...