Word: teared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...
...reasonable future security for his good men. 2) Let every newspaper of any size either fire or pension the high-priced ornaments and incompetent fuddy-duddies who now clutter up the place. Replace them, if they must be replaced, with ambitious young men who will work. 3) Tear down most or all of the schools of journalism and set the inmates to studying English, history, literature, economics, foreign languages, law or beekeeping...
...hour later, with scores of motor-cycle policemen and deputies as guards, police issued from the court house with the prisoners, fired over the heads of the crowd, scattered tear gas bombs, and in the confusion herded the men into cars, roared away toward Jackson. Six hours and 40 minutes after their confession, Killers Smith, Oliver and Blackstone were in Jackson prison, to remain until taken to Marquette penitentiary for the rest of their natural lives...
...vain I sought to calm her. Tears choked her voice. She could not speak. Finally she regained control of herself, staring at me through tear-filled eyes. 'Rudolf is dead! You alone must break the news to the Emperor...
Some 350 egg traders gathered on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange last week and listened to an announcement from President Courtney L. Poole. In angry tones he flayed a recent advertisement of Lambert (Listerine) Co. which was captioned: "Eggs! They tear you down socially." He called this a "vicious mispresentation" despite the fact that the advertisement assured its public that eggs are good for the system if not for the breath...