Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First subjects of King George to burn Dictator Mussolini in effigy were 2,000 Capetowners, so passionately aroused that they tore the figure to pieces before it could be ignited as a whole last week, separately burned the bits amid catcalls...
...situation, it was found upon investigation that Huppuch was unassisted in the capture of the thief, and that no patrolman entered the case until after the culprit was thoroughly subdued. While Huppuch was studying in his room, he noticed the door knob turn. Leaping from his chair, he tore open the door and found an individual looking for Moseley. He was recognized as a thief and captured by Huppuch, in the proccus dropping a pair of Callaway's seeks from his pockets...
...himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie...
...Shrew's furious scenes last week in Philadelphia, Lynn Fontanne Lunt tore a cartilage in her knee, played the rest of the week with her knee in a tight bandage...
While Huppuch was studying in his room, he noticed the door knob turn. He leaped from his chair and tore open the door to find a somewhat strange individual asking for Frederick. R. Moseley, Jr. '36, who at that moment was the cynosure of some 15,000 pairs of eyes on Soldiers Field...