Fun with phrases: "Ripped from today's headlines"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1936 _Pampa [Tex.] Daily News_  (Sept. 20) 14: Ripped Red Hot From Today's
Headlines  "STAKEDOWN" with LEW AYRES   JOAN PERRY.

1937 _Daily Journal-World_ (Lawrence, Kans.) (March 31) 3: Drama Ripped
>From Today's Headlines! ...a thundering drama of a man's power against a
woman's burning hate.  Edward Arnold and Francine Larrimore in "John
Meade's Woman."

And regularly since then.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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