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

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1936 _Pampa [Tex.] Daily News_  (Sept. 20) 14: Ripped Red Hot From Today's
> Headlines  "STAKEDOWN" with LEW AYRES   JOAN PERRY.
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> 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."
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> And regularly since then.
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> 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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I don't get it. Isn't that the way that it's supposed to be? I've
always thought that "ripped from tomorrow's headlines" and Law &
Order's "ripped from yesterday's headlines" - only with the advent of
L&W did it occur to me that the latter was a possibility - were the
extensions.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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