Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal case was described as "gradual in its onset . . . a general infection . . . little or no cough ... a sense of illness-yet a wish, born of quiet courage and the habit of duty, to make light of the illness and hold on to work, thus adding to the wear and tear of the fever...
Goaded by this blasphemy beyond endurance, a local Frankfurt clergyman leaped up from his balcony seat signaled to the gallery. There parishioners and sympathizers sat in cheapest seats with stench and tear bombs ready. At the signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs...
Serious minded people might dig up several quotations like the well-known one of Professor Marquand to the effect that the Harvard Stadium is architecture, that of his own university, very satisfactory engineering. Scientists might be called in to measure the wear and tear of the last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals...
Recent efforts to tear apart the shrouds which have surrounded the political clubs hereabouts serve only to emphasise the trance in which most of these organizations repose throughout the college experience of most of the student body. Every four years the adrenalin of a presidential campaign causes faint stirrings in the Harvard body-politic which feed the hopes of those gathered about the bier and which may be the signal for rejoicing, accompanied by the beating of tomtoms. Invariably and unfortunately the patient after a few inconsequential stirrings relapses into his former harmlessness...
...office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience. V;ola Frayne as Nurse Katy, Richard Gordon as Dr. Weston, demonstrated degrees of drunkenness in sympathetic fashion. On the whole, however, a play ineffectual, an evening ill-spent...