Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyed. In Baltimore, Erranger Trogdon's horse went on a tear, skidded into a confectionery store, fell, philosophically lay on the floor, ate three pies...
...closed out last week, and its last batch of prisoners shipped to other centers, ugly stories came to light. Tear gas had been used frequently; authorities argued that this was the "most humane" way of treating mobs. There had been a riot in which prisoners were shot. There had been brutality by the guards, and mass punishment for trivial offenses. Examples: exposure in freezing weather on a windy hill; confinement of 15 men for 36 hours in a 6-by-10-ft. "hole" where they could neither sit nor stand erect. Reported an education officer...
...Round Temple, dividing point between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with flailing bamboo lathis (traditionally a police weapon against demonstrators). Police lines broke under their charge, scattered Buttercups were beaten. Pop bottles and stones came flying from housetops together with buckets of water. Barricades of flaming trees were thrown across streets. False alarms called firemen to remote sections where gangs of goondas (hooligans) attacked...
...Argentina, the rich got the word. At pre-arranged H-hour, in a Mar del Plata casino, anti-Perón playboys and playgirls rose from the Government-run roulette wheels, started to march out. Perón's police, hurling tear gas, unrelentingly forced them back to the tables...
...when Cio-Cio-San committed hara-kiri there were many tear-filled eyes. The Met's general manager Edward Johnson, who in his tenor days sang Pinkerton some 50 times, is inclined to absolve him. Said he: "He's no villain, really. He's a romantic-a biological romantic...