Word: teare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lenin picked as first policeman of the proletarian revolution was borrowed from the Polish aristocracy. When Felix Dzerzhinsky was made head of the Bolshevists' CHEKA, he wrote to his wife: "I am now in the front line and I want to be merciless, to tear the enemy to pieces as a watchdog would...
...Handel's most powerful opponent was Frederick, Prince of Wales. He and his young friends, who scorned everything his father, George II, chose to favor, set up an Opera of the Nobility to rival Handel's theater. Handel's enemies organized bands of hoodlums to tear down his posters, gave parties on the nights of his oratorios to make sure no one would attend. Sometimes Handel played to nearly empty houses ("My music will sound the better so!" he snorted). Sometimes, the King and his party made up nearly the entire audience. Quipped Lord Chesterfield on leaving...
...Riggs and Big Jake Kramer didn't count. The real test was how well they did at home (both come from the Los Angeles area). Last week in Los Angeles, 6,529 jurors, including Donald Budge, Bill Tilden, the Bogarts and the Durochers, watched cocky little Bobby Riggs tear into Big Jake...
...Many a tear has been shed, especially by small businessmen, over the hard lot of new enterprises. But last week the Department of Commerce reported that the number of U.S. business firms rose by 200,000 in 1947 to a peak of 3,870,000. This was 14% above the previous alltime total (in September 1941). The rate of increase was on the decline. Reason: "the gradual disappearance of the more obvious opportunities for new enterprises which existed at war's end in construction and manufacturing...
...blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien; when he tried to enlist in the French army he was rejected. In the end he marched off to a French concentration camp for aliens, while Corinne settled down to wait...