Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August eggs were outcasts. "They tear you down socially," said a Listerine advertisement roundly condemned by New Vork Mercantile Exchange members who trade in eggs for a living (TIME, Aug. 17 ). Last week eggmen were bewildered when a Listerine Tooth Paste advertisement cried: "Eat more eggs. . . . Buy six dozen with that $3 you save." Observers wondered whether eggs and Listerine had come to terms or whether eggs were being shrewdly boosted with tooth paste savings that their odor might be washed away with Listerine...
About the Capitol machine guns were nested in high nooks and corners. Policemen carried rifles and tear bombs. An ambulance stood ready in the background. Washington's Superintendent of Police Glassford, smoking a long pipe, dashed about on a motorcycle. When the marchers reached the Capitol plaza they were encircled by police. Except for these jeers and songs, all was peace and order. A committee led by Herbert Benjamin was permitted to enter the Capitol. Benjamin started to push into the Senate chamber. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry blocked...
Primarily "just history," The Old-Time Saloon is written with serious humor, earmarked here & there as Ade-made. With a crocodile tear in his eye, Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...
...Hoover was a practically unknown man who had spent most of his adult life abroad. . . . His chief distinction had been acquired in distributing free food to the Belgian people-a celebrity easily won. I fancy, as the job of giving away things requires very little wear and tear on one's ability...
...Bill Abee a foot from Georgia's goal line. Penn's unbeaten team went to South Bend to play an intersectional game against Notre Dame, came back bruised, beaten and bewildered. 49 to o. Princetonians, who are unlikely this year to have an opportunity to tear up any goal posts, considered tearing up the team (see p. 52) after it had lost, 19 to 7, to Lehigh. Princeton's 150-lb. team was soundly thrashed by some Choate schoolboys, 46 to o. Florida, heavily penalized for unneces- sary roughness in the second quarter, took an unnecessarily rough...