Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almost every day during the football season, we received letters from overzealous graduates giving us information on our opponents, and there is nothing for us to do, of course, but to tear them...
That something turned out to be a man on the roof trying his utmost to tear the red streamer down. With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified...
...only enable the hair to stand on end, but also to quiver. The mind becomes the treasure house of the soul in a literal sense. A certain service is thereby done the novelist, for it is now plausible that the hero, losing his beloved to a millionaire rival, should tear out great handfuls of his hair--proof positive of his solvency...
...that I've put down below it another picture with the international flag flying above Old Glory, with a serpent on it. And the text will say that all blue noses will strive through the League of Nations, the World Court and other instruments for foreign entanglements, to tear our flag down, and that a vote for foreign entanglements is a vote for frequent wars...
Friend, spare a tear...