Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death a door or a wall? ... I hear the Pagan maiden sing her wild love song until its wailing notes sweep the stars into one tear of pity for her breaking heart. But no answer comes. ... If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie. .. . Nature is not a cheat and Life is not a flirtation. Our hope for immortality cannot be a colossal joke...
...British cinemagoers are still being moved to smiles & tears by the smile-&-tear jerker, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The school pictured in the film is Repton, a famed public school in Britain's Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement...
...throughout childhood. (Later on girls often fall in love with their fathers.) This Oedipus complex-sets the pattern for a child's response to other persons throughout the rest of his life. Normal persons outgrow the Oedipus situation by the time they reach maturity. But weaker characters cannot tear themselves away from their parents, hence, "fall into neuroses...
...bullets are handy. They drive the enemy out of his flaming cover into the open where he can be mowed down by gunners firing at the rate of 600 lead-cored slugs a minute. Within 600 yards the shocking power of its standard bullets is terrific-one burst can tear away a man's face, one slug in shoulder or ankle can knock him sprawling...
...Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer, in Rome used to rise at four or five o'clock, write 35 letters before breakfast. In his Villa Tennyson at San Remo he died...