Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will admit the general paucity of mosquitoes, but that was due, not to the elevation, but to the great lack of stagnant water in which they could breed. Unless the President bars all horses, except the "famed" electric horse, from the State Lodge, he would be wise not to tear off all the window screens from the kitchen...
...sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...
...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...told him-and brushed off a tear...
...silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear gas, riot guns, and perhaps even machine guns. Certainly innocent by-standers would have suffered and private property would have been damaged...