Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little children, parentless, dirty, tear-begrimed and hungry were picked up by a warm-hearted gendarme during the earliest bombardment in Paris. The little boy said he was called "Rintintin" and his sister who was afraid of the big noise was "Nanette...
...matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher. There she was! As she entered, so did the crowd, soon a howling mob. Four Texas rangers adjourned court with tear gas bombs...
Numbers. Every other bed in U. S. hospitals is occupied by a mental case. By 1970 there will be a million such cases, or 635 for every 100,000 people in the U. S. In 1880 there were only 63 per 100,000. Explanation: the wear-&-tear of an increasingly rushing civilization; public recognition that mental ills must be treated as well as bodily ills.?Dr. William Alanson White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, president of this International Congress...
...Girl which is rather duller than its predecessor. Alice White's saucy face and impish dancing tide over long sequences of shoptalk garnished with heavy-handed wit. Best role: Blanche Sweet as a fading beauty of the screen who sings a song to the effect that "there is a tear for every smile in Hollywood...
Last week, as the axe was being taken in an armored car to the annual ceremony, three young men posing as newshawks tossed a tear gas bomb into the procession, rushed the axe guards, made off with all but a small fragment of the precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more...