Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, I pledged my sacred word to the German people to do away with the Treaty of Versailles and to re-tore to them their natural and vital rights as a great nation...
...VIII) but "Bertie," then Duke of York, who presently came to Glamis and did his best to propose during his visit. The Duke, acutely conscious of his speech impediment but also tremendously in love, went for a ride with Lady Elizabeth on the day scheduled for his departure, finally tore a leaf from his notebook in desperation scribbled what he wanted to say and passed it over...
This was proper bait for the Vagabond. He tore after it like the tail after a kite. "Because Harvard is a conglomeration of every type," he stated with finality. "You can't let her go with Indifference. You have to use every adjective in the vocabulary...
...speakers were using a unified language, it was so technical that newshawks tore their hair trying to get plain-talk stories out of the meeting. One reporter sourly observed that the only semblance of unity he saw was a gathering of the delegates around a radio to hear war bulletins...
William Lamb was Caroline's predestined prey. They were married, though not before Caroline, "seized by an unaccountable fit of rage with the officiating bishop, tore her gown and was carried fainting from the room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...