Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz, they undoubtedly awakened in many a soupeon or two of curiosity about the music which gave each book its background, just as "The Grapes of Wrath" evoked a nation-wide sigh of sympathy for the Okies. But neither novel contained enough purple passages to inspire anyone to tear around to the nearest music store and buy up all the Louis Armstrong records on the shelves...
...path of the advancing Blues. The blowing up was theoretical but accurate: umpires with formulas in their pockets inspected every foot of fuse, every block of TNT, allowed no bridge to be closed off to the Blues unless enough simulated TNT was planted, in just the right spots, to tear it down...
This is not because "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve...
...corps drilled for an hour on gassing by the numbers and then went through the gas chamber where they proved to themselves the efficiency of a mask in staving off the effects of tear gas by the process of breathing through the mask for a minute or so and then it taking it off for 20 seconds...
...this point that the Yale man rose to heights of glory. The enlisted men used a few smoke bombs to raise a screen and then the battalion was told to "charge" through it without masks on. The idea was that someone had mixed a few tear bombs with the smoke bombs and the officers wanted to see how long it would be before the cadets would catch on and throw on their masks. The trial was 99 per cent a success. The one per cent was the Yale...