Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried older Brother Stanley Piseck: "Be men! We are going to have the masses with us to tear out this crime. Let me tell you brave men of the hills this: Don't be crybabies. Hold your milk...
...Montreux Conference was called three months ago to answer Turkey's request to tear up the Treaty of Lausanne and refortify the demilitarized Dardanelles (TIME, April 27). Ever since the Armistice Britain has strenuously opposed such action by Turkey, bitter with memories of her disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Responsible for Britain's interests at Montreux was the 7th Earl Stanhope, intimate friend of Stanley Baldwin...
...upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...
...Atlantic City, has all the wheels and most of the gadgets of a lathe for turning out baseball bats. It is used to pull eyelets out of tennis shoes, a dial registering the force needed. A machine with a rocking arrangement stretches sheets of shoe rubber until they tear. To test the safety-toe caps of miners' boots, a cake of paraffin is put in the toe and an iron weight dropped from a height of 4 ft. on the boot tip. If the cake shows any signs of flattening, the manufacturer makes the toe cap stronger...
...Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages...