Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort you and your following have made to nullify and tear down the 18th Amendment is treason of the rankest sort, and if ever a person deserved death at the hands of an outraged public you certainly deserve...
...occurred a clash between British Fascisti and Communists, involving some 2,000 persons, resulting in scores of more or less seriously damaged people and the wreckage of several private automobiles. The trouble started when the Fascisti, seeing a red flag, lost control of themselves and seized the insulting emblem, tearing it to pieces. They said they were pledged to tear down every red flag hoisted in London. The Evening News, antiCommunist, nevertheless scored the Fascisti, who are far from popular in London. Seeing a grave menace to the freedom of speech, the newspapers said...
...French Treasury-MM. Barnaud, Roussel and Thion de la Chaume-left Paris to represent France in discussions at London of the French War debt to Britain. The commission of three was expected to function at once. Finance Minister Caillaux expected to be in London as soon as he could tear himself away from preparing next year's budget...
...working at his Joan of Arc with a new secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...
...which Scopes was indicted and the act itself. Attorney General Stewart led off for the State. He claimed that the Constitution in no way discriminated against religious beliefs. Lawyer Clarence Darrow dominated the proceedings and aggravated in doing so a small rent in left shirt sleeve into a gigantic tear...