Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English caricaturists have all the material they need in Leslie Howard's farce of "Murray Hill." Two old maids with an attractive unmarried niece, a drunken nephew from Chicago and his impersonator from Princeton make the wheels spin around until one of the older ladies goes on a prolonged tear with the nephew, the impersonator is engaged to the niece, and the old family lawyer makes appropriate motions of merriment and despair at the goings-on in the dignified house on Murray Hill...
Boston Common, for the first time in history, was closed to public orators. Order there and elsewhere was maintained by the full Boston police force on 24-hour duty. Riot squads were equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades, tear bombs. Exciting looking characters were immediately boxed in by police and marched off "to protect them from mob violence...
...tracked with gum-wrappers that they resemble the wake of a paper chase. At night not so; then the trees are like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...
...Great Mail Robbery. Those who would renew their acquaintance with The Great Train Robbery of cinema's infancy may do well to contemplate The Great Mail Robbery, wherein armored trucks, machine guns, tear gas and other refinements of crime are employed in the Wild West as a background for old-fashioned vanquish-the-villain-hug-the-heroine melodramatics in modern clothes...
...masks and other protection be provided for the citizens and "possibly . . . horses," that the city then be gassed. This would show, thought Dr. Holmes, the humanity of gas as a weapon. "The belief that gas warfare is devilish should be abolished." Dr. Holmes was talking throughout only about tear gases (bromacetone, xylyl bromide, diphosgene...