Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intuitive Adolf Hitler is feminine in never wanting a fight, but only victory. It would hardly have occurred to a masculine dictator, such as Mussolini, simply to ask the Czechoslovakian Government through intermediaries last week to tear up their military alliance with the Soviet Government, yet this was just what the Führer did, according to officials at Prague...
Most surprising information in Lost Atlantis is that believers in the theory are becoming more numerous, more scientific, and crankier. In France an Atlantean society split into two groups on theoretical questions about the make-up of the hypothetical continent, began disrupting each other's meetings with real tear-gas bombs. In Denmark enthusiasts founded a principality of Atlantis, issued coins and stamps and placed Prince Christian on their imaginary throne. In Germany another wrote a book to prove that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryans, that when it was destroyed only three Aryans escaped. "Then comes...
...migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States will tear up its various interpretations of the flood wave, refuse ever to build for the future, and thereafter depend upon the gods...
...other nations were willing to disarm because all they had to do was to tear up blueprints, while we actually scrapped battleships. And now, when it seems likely that Japan is exceeding her quota, we haven't even built up to our treaty limit...
...lighter dog, "Red," a natural fighter, closed in fast, grabbed his older opponent by the throat, spun him, slapped him viciously to the mat, and lunged his weight on him. This Red did again & again, to the rising excitement of the spectators, who shrieked "Kill 'im Red!" "Tear 'im apart...