Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bequeathed it to the Massachusetts Homeophatic Hospital, which organization administered it for many years. After some time it was bought by a group of Harvard graduates and in 1907 it again changed hands finally to wind up in 1924 in the hands of Samuel Lebowitch, who threatened to tear the building down. C. C. Stillman '98 acquired it in the same year and on his death last summer the executors, in order to settle up his estate decided to sell the building...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
...concluding sentence "I am sure that many people would be led to subscribe in this way-to their own great pleasure and profit," made me want to tear my hair when I read...
Greasy and tear-drenched, she lay in blankets on the cruiser Ramona. "O, Mom, you did it, dog-gone you, you did it," sobbed 11-year-old Everett Huddleston...
They will again argue that by revealing the most intimate details they are making the men they treat more human, that they bring back a sense of balance, that they tear away the clouds of sanctified hokum which still surround such a figure as "The Martyr President" Harding, who died of eating crab-meat out of season to the end that all who exploited him Doheny, Fall, Sinclair, et al, should not be punished but should have everlasting freedom from justice...