Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman and maid to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every Atlanta male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers. He also requested citizens not to tear off the clothes of visiting movie stars, as happened in Kansas at the premiere of Dodge City...
...demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then they very likely will not be. Then again, they may very possibly tear down his grade, since the staffs of survey courses have ruled to penalize "canned information" on examinations...
Twenty years ago, high up over Wall Street, an early-bird office boy named Martin Block used to tear a page off Owen D. Young's calendar every morning, turn on the office ozone machine, then listen to earfuls of advice (8:55 to 9) from the big boss himself. Nowadays Martin Block, the dapper $50,000-a-year impresario, prizes that advice highly. "I had better than a college education," he reflects. "I had five minutes a day, six days a week, two and a half years with Owen D. Young...
...taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public...
Comrade Dimitroff had singled out Italy especially as one of the countries which were "waiting the moment when it is clear which side will be victorious in order to join the stronger and pounce on the body of the defeated country to tear off their share." Next day the Fascist journalists struck back, led by Dictator Benito Mussolini's famed mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda. "If today Europe is fighting a war of imperialism and plutocratic interests," declared Signer Gayda, "Russia also is in it no less than other powers...