Word: tearlessly
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...humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie's blushing "tie twiddle" and exasperated slow burn and Stan's tearless, whimpering crying jag and flip-flopping walk (which he achieved by cutting the soles off his shoes). For some reason, women do not appreciate the humor as much as men do. Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold...
Davies was an odd choice for commander in chief in the modernists' battle against the academics. Though Davies was friendly with the original members of the realist Ashcan School,*his own paintings pictured a vernal never-never land of cavorting nymphs and nice little girls, a tearless world where Purity and Joy joined in allegorical dances and virgins herded unicorns beside an unruffled sea. His work had become vastly popular with the public, and Davies' support for the Armory Show was proportionately influential. He rallied a group of wealthy, art-minded New Yorkers (including his own patronesses. Gertrude...
...series of excerpts from Chinese operas that-in China-may run as long as seven hours apiece. It went heavy on astonishing acrobatics, mimicry and comic pantomime, the spectacular sauce of the Chinese originals. What was left of the dramas was put across by exquisite, formalized gestures, e.g., a tearless eye elaborately wiped on a sleeve, a circular motion of a hand on breast to indicate meditation, a ritual lifting of feet as actors entered the stage. All these were perfectly punctuated by the gaudy sounds of nasal voices, rattling drums, clanging gongs...
...house also needed him. The life that had been compounded of good things for little girls while he was alive crashed to its tearless ruin with his death. Louise, who was twelve when he died, could remember the diamonds in the eyes of his bulldog stickpin, and how she hid her dolls under the covers and made Father sit on a chair, so he would not sit on the dolls when he came to say goodnight. He took everything to the grave with him-money (he had signed too many notes), friends, family standing, a way of life...
...rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking of poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor-urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder...