Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole of European literature, the whole shape and vocabulary of European mysticism, the whole ferocious timbre of European war fare, the whole possibility of such megalomaniacs as Hitler, the whole suffering wreckage of European love and marriage. De Rougemont believes there is an almost universal schizophrenia, a tide rip created in millions of individuals between two hopelessly incompatible systems: the socially responsible, Christian type of love ingrained by Family, Church and State; and the anarchic, unappeasable passion which is literature's (and the cinema's) degraded heritage from the troubadours. An unattainable "happiness" has replaced an unattainable divinity...
...Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows...
...Europe have come its handmaidens in the Americas, talk of war and fear of war and expectation of war and even willingness for war. Latin-American governments have given up the pretense of impartiality. From Washington comes talk of a two-ocean navy and huge new army appropriations. The rip-tide of emotionalism which sent the U.S. to the defense of Brave Little Belgium in 1917 can be felt moving again in the uncertain currents of American life...
...Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
...years ago Katharine Brush decided to start afresh, "not my old way, but the free-style way, where you just let 'er rip." She wrote anything and everything, semiautomatically, filed it away in eight big cabinets labeled "Ideas," "Characters F," "Characters M," etc. Soon she felt better. But she now badly reeded cash. So she suggested to her publishers, Farrar & Rinehart, that they bring cut a volume of her short stories...