Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to go home, I don't want to go home. The summer is hot, the winter is cold, I'm too young to be feeling so old. There'll be a tear in my eye When I bid old Cleveland goodby. Oh dear! I'd rather stay here, I don't want to go home...
Bowdoin College remembers Donald MacMillan as the member of '98 who shinnied up the lightning rod on King's Chapel spire to tear clown a flag that had been hoisted in derision of his class. Adventurous, athletic, he loved the sea where his Scotch grandfathers had sailed, where his father was lost when Donald was 9. He would talk of going some day to the North Pole and made a collection of books on the Arctic during the years when he was successively principal of a Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director...
...Just where is the line to be drawn in printing news ? . . . For instance, a newspaper might for conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...
When a Tebu rides a camel, he takes off his drawers to save wear and tear, and hangs them upon the camel's neck...
...Greeks, who are always thinking up something important when not engaged in founding restaurants, have decided at last to restore the Parthenon. It's really a wonder they didn't do it earlier, before some of the pieces were lost. But what with the general wear and tear, the growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against...