Fun with phrases: "Ripped from today's headlines" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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_Trenton [NJ] Evening Times 9/7/1933 p 15 col 7

"Political turmoil, riot and the threat of revolution, financial and
Government crises taken from today's headlines are the storm clouds that
drive one man from his position at the helm of state and from the love
of his life to drugs and debauchery."


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> >  I've always thought that "ripped from tomorrow's headlines" and Law
> &
> Order's "ripped from yesterday's headlines" ... were the extensions.
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> They are, they are.
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> But before 1936, it looks like *nothing* was ever ripped from any
> headlines.
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> Except individual printed words, of course. In theory.
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> BTW, "torn from..." actually shows up a few weeks later:
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> 1936 _Salt Lake Tribune_ (Dec. 5)  "I'd Give My Life," a gripping
drama
> that might have been torn from today's headlines.
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> JL
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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.
> > >
> > > 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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> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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