Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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when they stand an' sigh, with a tear...
...union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue, Mahoney and his men would "tie up Pekin...
Since general enthusiasm does not seem to warrant an economy in the number of games, Mr. Bingham is making a sensible decision in asking that the wear and tear on the players be mitigated by extending the period of training. Pigskin continues to be king, and if the gentleman's throne is too narrow, it must in the interests of comfort be widened...
...Harding is not nearly so heroic as usually. Perhaps there is too much martyrdom in her characterization of Mrs. Talbot. But it is difficult to be ungenerously harsh on a really good, tear-jerking performance. Margaret Lindsay does so well as a cold, hard, feeling less woman that we are inclined to forgive her unfelicitous roles of the past. Thus "The Lady Consents" is an admirably cast melodrama of matrimony which you mustn't miss...
...then again I did see a tear fall from a poet...