Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe on a "study tour" to fit him for the job and get him a Ph.D. from Columbia. Reported Living Age's Fry: "I saw one man brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked or dragged off, women begging their men to keep out of the fight and crying and pleading...
...onetime middleweight boxing champion, laid off by Mayor O'Brien as chief of the Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed in the hospital with a special bodyguard of Revere police on duty day & night in the next room. To call went the Secretary of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, who learned that Mayor O'Brien had been assaulted several times...
...feelings are very much hurt. From now on until our subscription runs out, I shall put TIME in the wastebasket as soon as it comes, and I will tear it, too, so the janitor won't get any pleasure from...
...Sweitzer still had one last desperate trick up his sleeve. He barricaded himself in the Treasurer's office with 30 private detectives, held it until midnight when police with riot guns and tear gas appeared to remove him physically. After a quarter of a century on the public payroll, Bob Sweitzer reluctantly went home without a job. Where the missing $414,129 was coming from, still no one could say. But next day the State's prosecutors promised criminal action against ousted Treasurer Sweitzer on the theory that, while you cannot get blood out of a turnip...
...posse armed with machine guns, tear gas and sawed-off shotguns caught up with big Baptist Eskridge 80 miles east of Orange. Jailed in Louisiana, he stormed defiantly against the "enemies" who accused him of murder...