Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West 46th St. What with this and what with that, Beatrice Lillie, especially when she is augmented by Charlie Winninger, keeps the audience in uproars. As soon as she leaves the stage, however, you'll tear your hair, (if you're bald you'll scratch where the hair was) and wonder why you ever came. When she comes back, you'll wonder why you ever wondered...
...mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition. A crowd of students from Carson-Newman College gathered outside. Murderer Johnson fired into the crowd, killed a football player. With machine guns, tear bombs, automatic rifles, deputy sheriffs tried to get him out. Shooter Johnson returned their fire. Citizens talked of sending to the governor for a detachment of militia, agreed first to make one more effort. Enlisting 75 more courageous deputies, they stormed toward Mr. Johnson's death-spitting windows. Someone touched...
...Locarno policy is leading him toward the traitorous iniquity of abandoning the Rhineland to Germany. . . . When the mob learns how he is stripping from France her only safeguard, the day will come when M. Briand will be glad to be arrested and jailed beyond the reach of hands that tear and gouge...
...what I have said you will find the answer to the question so often asked of our colonial aspirations and desires. One must not describe Italy as though she were lying in hiding behind a hedge, ready to jump at the throat of the first passing nation, to tear a colony from her hands...
...made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne. His gavel smote his desk; he said that his seat could better be declared vacant by a majority vote. A vote was taken. He kept his throne until 1911; but gradually the old rules were replaced; "Tsar" Cannon was replaced by "Uncle Joe" Cannon...