Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luggage will consist largely of an arsenical arsenal: six different arsenical compounds which have already been tried on animals, found superior to Bayer 205.*Best of them all is Arsenical No. 130, in which tear gas aids and abets arsenic to destroy the trypanosomes, restoring the sufferer to normalcy. Dr. Clement C. Chesterman, who has spent years in the Belgian Congo, will cooperate with Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas to turn the jungle into a vast clinic, inoculating thousands of infected natives and animals with the drugs. They will follow epidemics around Africa, maintaining a base at Leopoldville, Congo capital...
...creditors on his desk, smiles sternly as he checks off names. He lives with his wife in a two-room hotel suite costing $1,400 a year, rides to work at 8 a. m. on the subway. He has no children, no partners. He swears he will tear up that list on his desk before he dies. That is why he wants to live to be 85, 95, a century. . . . Citizens recalled a younger broker, whose firm failed in 1905 and who has paid all debts with interest for 22 years. He is Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, now famed...
...With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors in the sentimental graduation milieu, immediately upon the presentation of the last diploma let their thoughts wander New London-ward and shouts and prayers for victory supersede solemn rumination upon the joys and sorrows of graduation...
...Such sad scenes are shown as the one wherein the mournful mime requires of a doctor some remedy for his sorrow and is told to look upon the efforts of the finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with sorrow. Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a trite picture and not a true one, but it succeeds surprisingly...
...flay a man alive in the classic Oriental fashion begin by making two long parallel cuts 21/2 inches apart. Loosen one end of the strip of skin between the cuts, grasp firmly, and then tear off the strip. Repeat until the victim is completely skinned...