Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsiders too, Huntsville's Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even...
Arthur Sampson of the Herald: "Harvard should win 15 to 0. The Crimson have held the upper hand in the last few years and have shown a consistent ability to rip the Army line to shreds with their mousetrap plays. Most of last year's starting lineup will be back for Harvard, and they should easily overpower one of the smallest Cadet teams in years...
...leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern Mexico were so insignificant that President Lazaro Cárdenas could tour through the troubled areas all week without danger...
...gale whipped white saliva on to the sharp tongues of the Channel rip, and fog set in thick about Dover, Winston Churchill turned the House over to First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander. As the Prime Minister leaned busily over some notes, the First Lord announced that the destroyers bought from the U. S. would be given names of towns which lie in both Britain and the U. S., that the first flotilla would be given the initial C, and that the flotilla leader would be called Churchill. The Prime Minister busily leaned and fumbled, but the bald...
...means surprising is the fact that war brought a box-office boom to British cinema theatres. It was to be presumed that cinemaddicts would seek escape in rip-roaring thrillers, wacky comedies, sprightly musicals. Not at all. Last week their favorites were grim documents of the Fleet in action, airmen swooping, bombs falling, factories roaring-anything and everything to do with war. Along with these rousing shots of what people see every day the Ministry of Information was offering a surprise package in a group of five-minute shorts...