Word: teared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just arrived in the hotel sitting room for a repertory season, the actors rehearse a tear-jerking scene setting forth the fact that the illegitimate child of one by the other is dead. A servant girl, unnerved by such talk, blats out the information that she has in fact had an illegitimate child that died. The rehearsal is forgotten but the lively news cannonades through the town. After several weeks of watching the stock company's delightfully gloomy goings-on at the local theatre, the townspeople with one mind begin to fancy themselves as great tragic figures with...
...about the feelings of disgust which fill the minds of loyal Harvard graduates as they see these riot scenes around the goal posts after football games. At any rate, I trust that if the Harvard Tennis Team defeats Yale at New Haven they will not consider it proper to tear up the nets and posts and bring them home. Arthur W. Blakemore...
...standstill but not without loud backfirings. Wham! a cheese factory went up at Belgium, Wis. Wham! Wham! two more were dynamited at Krakow and Zachow. Repudiating their Holiday leader, Wisconsin farmers, bundled against the biting winter winds, held up city-bound milk and food trucks, braved ax handles, tear gas and blackjacks, stormed the Sunshine dairy at Waterford three times in a day, destroying 34,000 Ib. of milk by dumping it on the ground, pouring gasoline in the vats. Thirty-five picketers at Wausau were arrested, thrown in jail, after they demolished a truck...
Modern police have outgrown most of Lepine's clever mechanical innovations for the effective maintenance of law and order. His fleet bicycle janissaries have been supplanted by the radio car, and his glittering troopers by the prosaic riot squad and tear gas. His technique of piercing with swords the tires of hit and run drivers is, perhaps, no longer practical. But the admirable adroitness which characterized his administration suaviter in modo and fortiter in re, will never become out of date. It is a virtue which the modern constabulary might cultivate with profit...
...hands of the troopers during the afternoon, remarking that he would return "in a short time." By the time he got back night had fallen. His jail was besieged. Under the headlights of police cars, the mob was running crazily this way & that through the smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody opened a second...