Word: tripes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convinced that anyone who could make money on "such tripe" could certainly run a cotton mill, father Springs took his son back as a vice president (after making him promise that he would write no more books). Since the elder Springs's death in 1931, Elliott, who still flies his own plane, has run the family's vast (some 550,000 spindles) cotton empire, one of the three biggest...
...tripe published by American editors...
...possibility of Chip Gannon's emerging as a tripe-threat back developed after the Chipper had gotten off some long, rainbow boots in the kicking practice. Noonan, Moffie, and Leo Flynn shared the passing chores, and when Soldiers Field finally blacked out, the squad moved under the floodlights for signal drills...
...answer to all this is that music is music; at the time we may associate certain emotions with it; in another period its effect may be entirely different. I am afraid music is a foreign language to Professor Gore also, with his talk of "osculatory orchestration" and similar tripe. He says church music should be written by the "best composers." Who decides who are the best composers? Professor Gore...
...wish space permitted me to quote the entire magazine here. That would be the most effective way of proving my point. The Christmas issue is a hodge-podge collection of tripe--cynically designed to startle Harvard by exposing the fact that there is no Santa Claus, a really novel idea. The Lampoon's dearth of ideas is demonstrated by their choice of material for the review column, "As Lampy Sees Them." They fall back on a pair of antique Fredrick March sagas, that no one is interested in, and write a review that is worse than the pictures something commonly...