Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard squad was still bowling last night when the all-important telegram bearing the Yale scores arrived from New Haven. Harry Donaldson, team manager grabbed the message, tore it open and moaned to his mates, "They've gone and rolled up a 1645 total, boys...
...career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently...
...Allison, who speaks Japanese, diplomatically confined himself to adding that the sentry "livid with rage . . . shouted at us in a most offensive manner," grabbed Mr. Riggs, tore the collar and some buttons from his shirt...
...Chicago, at five o'clock one tense morning, near the end of a noisy five-hour mass meeting, 350 American Newspaper Guild members from the Hearst Herald & Examiner and American tore up picket signs, canceled a threatened strike, accepted a one-year Guild contract offered by nervous little Herald & Examiner Publisher Emanuel ("Manny") Levi, who also took over the American fortnight ago. The contract provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial...
Abruptly was ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were...