Word: teared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Glenn Scobie ("Pop") Warner takes his painting less seriously. One of the oldest football coaches in the industry, he is credited with the invention of the crouching start for linesmen. He gained his greatest fame in 1911 as coach of the Carlisle Indians when the great Thorpe used to tear down the field snorting through his noseguard. Pop's only art in struction came from a village sign painter. Fond also of carpentry, he manufactures all his golf clubs. Said he last week : "Bob Zuppke, they tell me, wears a smock or a duster or something like that...
...second thought, M. Laval saw that even in the name of Goodwill he must not tear tourists two days early from their Paris, must let them have their last rounds of champagne cocktails, buy their last svelte gowns, paste jewels, guaranteed antiques and copies of My Life & Loves by Frank Harris. The He de France, it was hastily announced, will keep to her original sailing date, Oct. 16. President Hoover will wait...
...known that he favors a reciprocal Anglo-Indian agreement under which India's surplus needs (over and above what she can produce herself) would be supplied exclusively by Britain-this agreement to be, of course, in return for complete Indian independence. "Tear His Eyes Out!" St. Gandhi had set out for Lancashire to drive a bargain by which he thought both sides would gain-but would hungry, workless Lancashire understand? Was the 76-lb. Mahatma's life safe? Scotland Yard sent with him four detectives (each over 200 lb.), just in case. Darwen, black focus of Lancashire depression...
...airplane bearing tear-gas bombs zoomed down upon small Jonesboro, Ark. one day last week. The National Guard stood ready with machine guns and fixed bayonets. Would there be martial law? Arkansas' Governor Harvey Parnell sent ten State Highway policemen. Local police were practically of no use; they wanted to take sides and get in the battle themselves. For of Jonesboro's 10,000-odd inhabitants, fully 7,000 were enjoying a breath-taking series of revival-meetings, near-riots, brawls and courtroom scenes...
...lines in Friendship look even worse than they sound. Sample from Miss Patrick's batch: "I'm just a puppet. That's all I've ever been to you." Mr. Cohan: "I know I've caused her many a heartache, many a tear." Actor Cohan, who wrote the piece, also wrote in a little part (that of the young litterateur's sister) so that his pretty daughter Helen Frances might make her Broadway debut. Cloudy With Showers- This is the one about the shy college professor and the skittish maiden who bets that...