Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe any one familiar with the practical use of tear gas does not recommend its use as a palliative for diseases, but that it should only be used under emergency conditions, making unnecessary the use of clubs, revolvers, shotguns, or rifles...
Said Lawyer Solovei, "I guarantee the reversal of this conviction. If I don't, I'll tear my sheepskin into a million pieces and never practice again and you can print that!" Fred Hull. 53, who had made the greatest gamble a man can make -and lost-said nothing. He is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of Sept...
...views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down, are at his bedside. They separate, Bianca...
...Even if the police were justified in halting the marchers, "proper police work clearly required careful preparation"-i.e. use of tear gas instead of guns and clubs...
...Labor Board's star witness. For weeks, he related, Manager Meyers, the Law & Order League and a back-to-work committee had kept "pounding" him to deputize more policemen. Chief Switter weakened only to the point of accepting from Republic a consignment of guns, ammunition and tear gas. "I finally told them it was up to the mayor," testified Chief Switter. ''They made the old boy pretty hot. Then they jumped on me. I said all right I would appoint the whole damned outfit. I would give them everything they wanted. I could see there would...