Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Casadesus grimly returned. The audience roared with applause. He sat down, tore through Chopin and Ravel, wrestled till the last encore with the relief piano, which, propped up on a roller frame, struggled to roll out of his reach. Local critics were sure that St. Louis would never forget Casadesus, that Casadesus would never forget St. Louis...
...Sessions by Judge Laetare Roy that the authorities were "flagrantly failing in their duty" to stamp out Vice. After reading this the French-Canadian students sallied forth one night last week, broke into eight houses of prostitution in succession, whacked naked inmates upon the buttocks, upset beds and tore up bedding, ripped lighting fixtures from the walls and otherwise proved their collegiate Virtue...
...were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere in Spain, Barcelona mobs burned all but two churches in that city, ripped out religious paintings and statuary, tore open tabernacles and ground Sacred Hosts on the floor. Not content with such acts of sacrilege, Barcelona Reds wantonly dug up pious dead, either crucifying freshly buried bodies, as was done in the Monastery of St. Dominic, or hauling out from their convent crypts the ancient mummies of Carmelite nuns...
...Germany. To create an international incident which the German Press could scarcely overlook and thus to assure German Communists that U. S. Communists were still with them, a party of Manhattan Marxists last year raided the German Liner Bremen at the price of a half-dozen cracked pates, tore the Swastika off its forepeak, tossed it into the Hudson River (TIME. Aug. 5. 1935). Last week, at the same price, the same technique was used to let the Reich's Reds know how U. S. Reds felt about the German attitude toward the Spanish Revolution (see p. 18). Hour...
Quintuplet-Deliverer Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe and the original Dionne midwives were not called in for last week's proceedings because of their association in Mr. and Mrs. Dionne's mind with the hated Ontario Government which tore the Quintuplets from their poor home, made them the luxurious handmaidens of science and official wards of the King. Beamed new Deliverer Dr. Ildor Joyal of North Bay: "Un gros garçon! A real bouncer! A really strong and healthy baby, messieurs! Nor have I ever seen a more radiant and joyful mother...