Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faust'; the performance was in Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping on singing. I just stooped down and tore off the entire reel of lace, put it into the jewel box that I have...
...would take a blind man, a hypocrite, or a total abstainer from Boston parties to deny that there is not at least a germ of truth in the picture which Miss Lowella Cabot paints in the Advocate of the Harvard man off on a tear in Boston. Overdrawn the picture is, of course, but no more off the plumb line than is necessary for good satire...
...roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire is broken which was to have preserved his equilibrium on the high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious monkeys run after him and tear his clothes off. These are not, moreover, the only truly comic moments in The Circus. Scarcely any period of 30 seconds passes without supplying new and highly legitimate grounds for laughter...
...coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then she watches her son grow up, go to war, come back to marry a frivolous pretty girl and tear up his father's fields to find the coal that lies under them. The story is perhaps less powerful than some of Author Kaye-Smith's previous charts of hard acres and dialectic heart aches-but it rings clearly and audibly, avoiding the tinkle of artificiality...
There are several mooring masts in U. S. where the Los Angeles may tie up for the night. But should a high wind rise she must let go, or tear her nose off. She can, in emergencies, be brought down on large flat stretches. There must be crowds on hand to hold her. She can be temporarily "anchored" at sea by means of a huge canvas bucket dragged in the water on a 200 foot cable. On absolutely still lakes she can be angled down, to rest with her nose in the water. These are all temporary measures. Dirigibles...