Word: teared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mariene Dietrich is an emotional and aesthetic experience. To see her in the fabulous modernism of the new Paramount Theatre adds further color to that experience. Only a picture of the forcefulness of Shanghai Express could tear one away from the exotic pastime of watching full-blown colonial maidens, done in the style of Louis XVI, cavorting in modernistic panels under the influence of subdued lighting effects. Paramount has again attempted to be all things to all men and has again succeeded in its own fashion...
Secretary Hurley: You can't give the Philippine people their independence at 2 o'clock on a specific day. This Hawes-Cutting bill attempts to tear down in five years all the United States has built up in 20. It is a cowardly bill...
Linton Perry knows that he is silly to do his trick. Dr. Smith explained to him that unless he ceases his monkey shines instanter, one of these days he will go blind. He will stretch his optic nerves so much that fibres will tear. Or he will jar loose the retinas in his eye balls...
...than by the vitality and glow of her own extraordinary personality. She personifies, more than she impersonates, a woman who, nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
Miss Cowl called her play Smilin' Through, and there are those who still feel a sympathetic tear in their eye when they reflect on how dulcet was Miss Cowl in her dual role of both heroines, how pleasant was the treacly little theme song of that piece...