Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers refused to service it, struck. Union officials improved the occasion by demanding more pay, a 36-hour week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines bore down on the seething mass-at 50 m.p.h., said strikers. Four men were seriously hurt, more than 100 banged and bruised. One aging striker was found dead of heart failure. State police...
...charged with misprision of felony (a misdemeanor) for failing to report Bookkeeper Cocklin's crime. While harried Governor Smith was posting a $3,000 bond in Rutland's municipal court, Treasurer Baldwin was over in the county court being sentenced for his part in concealing the crime. Tear-choked County Judge Buttles imposed a fine of $400 against his old friend Lathrop Baldwin, gave him a suspended sentence of from six months to a year. First U. S. State executive to get so near jail since North Dakota's Langer was tried for levying on relief...
...Little Tear Gland that Says Tic Tac (Max Ernst...
...Twelve women and 45 men, picketing the Berkshire Knitting Mills in Reading, Pa. by lying flat on its ice-covered front walk, refused to budge under a tear-gas barrage, were arrested, sentenced to 30 days in jail for "blocking the sidewalk...
...neck. The trouble was, he had forgotten to take a lighted cigar from his mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening out the affairs of an alcoholic cousin. This cousin had fallen into the clutches of a designing female who, according to the classic formula of Wodehouse novels, turned...