Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smouldering Fires. Emotional acting is not regarded with the same reverence as it used to be. The beaten breast, the torn hair, the dripping tear are too often signs of antiquity. Pauline Frederick is one of its chief disciples now remaining and it must be said that she does much for its survival. In the present outburst, she is a business woman, no longer young, who marries a young man in her employ. The youth, it evolves, is really in love with her young sister. The opportunity for a grand renunciation scene is not overlooked. An excellent, if slightly oldfashioned...
...aristocrat. Before addressing the hotel employe, he respectfully removed from his head a felt hat, and requested a room. He volunteered the information that he had left his wife and children, even fishing from his pocket a photograph of them (spotted with marks that were certainly not tear-stains), which he insisted that the clerk examine. He was, he said, a baseball player. His services had been hired by a famed big league team. He had come for spring practice...
...near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then his chattering teeth." Keats died...
...same time, Thomas J. Daly, agent for the owner of Beck Hall, made public his plans to tear down the old dormitory and erect in its place a large apartment house and a row of stores. The land, a total area of 31,000 square feet, was first offered to Mr. Wyner for his hotel, in the event that the University should buy the Mt. Auburn Street property...
...sometimes think that we should tear down the Statue of Liberty from the summit of this Capitol and place a big black pap bottle in its place. The idea seems to be that the Government is something to which resort is to be incessantly had for the coddling and artificial stimulation of private interests...