Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melody Man. Lew Fields, after an absence, returned to Broadway, a bit more leisurely, a bit stouter, but still screamingly pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which...
...should you feel the nearness of a tear...
Education should tear away the enshrouding myths of collective passions and stimulate in their place a just and rational skepticism: that was the theme of Bertrand Russell's lecture before the largest and most enthusiastic audience which has filled the Living Room of the Union in the past year...
...rallied to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property and his honor-let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his childrens liberty. Let reverence for the laws become the political religion of the nations." JOHN P. HUBBARD...
...Under the slogan, "One people, one nation, one Kaiser," the German National People's Party launched a strong monarchist drive for the Reichstag elections. A party manifesto demanded repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, urged the youth of the land to tear away "the tissue of lies about Germany's war guilt," to go back to Bismarck and "fight everywhere against the destructive spirit of the Jews...