Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Young revealed that the tear gas business had increased some 10% since the textile strike. His ethical defense: tear gas is better than "lead bullets" to down a disturbance...
...convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero of the Civil War, do things come out the way they should. Mounted against crinolines and candy-pulling, Negro melodies and aging Civil War veterans, Judge Priest will bring many a tear and chortle to those who find this sort of 19th Century southern cooking more palatable than the fancy, suggestive pastry of Miss West in New Orleans...
...Tear Gas. Flying a fast Lockheed from McKeesport, Pa. to Providence, R. I. to deliver a load of tear gas bombs to National Guardsmen in the textile strike (see p. 22), General Manager Theodore Taney of Central Airlines crashed in the Tuscarora Mountains, was found dead in his half-opened parachute...
...Vagabond made the faintest discernible motion to brush away a tear, but years of discipline asserted themselves. He braced up and adjusted his cowl about his shoulders, against the tiny suggestion of a Fall chill. Slowly he descended the steps to the water's edge, to the conceald spot under the graceful arch of the bridge that serves him in summer as an anchorite's cell, against the day when the ivory walls of Memorial Hall Tower would be brushed free of cobwebs and it for winter's occupancy...
...Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find out if his newly organized celeri (speedy) divisions are really as efficient as they appear on paper or if the mass of electrically controlled machine guns, trucks, tanks, microphone plane finders and other gadgets with which...