Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having a slight cast in one eye. her direct gaze (which she rarely unleashed) had a disturbingly hypnotic effect, especially on men. She knocked Anson over with the first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from her arms to go to a dying woman, they quarreled. Pretty soon he began to suspect that somebody else's hat was on the hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took...
...hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains bloody, but unbowed. With flags still flying in the teeth of adversity last week, he named a Manhattan street for the Polish hero, Kosciusko, and with something of a manly tear in his voice he denied any ingratitude ("that basest of all sins") on the part of the City to its foreign population, and recalled to his audience that he, O'Brien, had installed in a municipal office a Pole, "the first of his kind...
...came out. They were beaten down. When police tried to intervene, the Kerrymen whanged them unmercifully, finally got so completely out of hand that troops had to be called out. The troops stopped the riot by firing into the air, prodding Kerrymen with bayonets and making them Cry with tear gas bombs...
...memory; and carries off the part of a Railroad executive with a satisfying, lusty banging of fists. Miss Colleen Moore, handicapped by what is sometimes termed the "Come back stage," turns out an acceptable, occasionally an appealing version of the ambitions Mrs. Garner. Mr. Ralph Morgan is still Nicky Tear, however of a filling system. Helen Vincent is beautiful and blank...
...Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance...