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...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Something Old, Something New | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...evening concluded with a place of utter tripe--the Goldmark Overture to Sakuntala which gave Holmes an opportunity to loss the whole school into the battle. To the usual two bassoons and two clarinets. The work was never well orchestrated, and the instrumental weighting did not prove a help. It was better fun than it was music...

Author: By Palmar R. Omaltey, | Title: MUSIC BOX | 3/29/1946 | See Source »

...TRIPE?tripe is the word to characterize your article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Leaving off now, we turn the rest of this unmitigated tripe over to Midshipman Jack Shindler...

Author: By T.x. Cronin and W.m. COUSINS Jr., S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

...this is by way of preamble to an accusation that the Pearl Harbor correspondents write tripe and lies and kill Pacific stories before the truth can get out. Correspondents in Pearl Harbor, writing from a ten-line communique and feeling a terrible compulsion to produce prose, pump their stories full of pure fancy and balderdash. Because they must write something and know no better, they begin each battle in triumph and write it off to a victorious finish by the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Accuse | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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