Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven years ago another man who also liked monuments began to put it together again...
...passed more quietly than usual in Paris. Communists tore up a few paving blocks in the workers' quarter on the left Bank, dug trenches, and built bonfires, but the gendarmerie were equal to the situation, and checked incipient parades. "For the first time in many years on a May Day," reports say, "there were taxicabs in plenty on the streets,"--perhaps a more real menace to the citizenry than parades themselves, if we remember our fiacres. So peaceful was the day that correspondents did not see fit even to mention the state of health of "Smiling Gaston's" Ministry...
...long has Germany been victimized. Twenty years have brought to light many factors not universally known at the time the great configuration started. No longer can the Teutonic nation be shouldered with full and sole responsibility for the war that tore Europe asunder. The time has come for sensible treatment of a situation that has caused as much unrest and anxiety as the war itself. Germany must be given an opportunity to regain her self-respect and full nationhood. If another world catastrophe is to be avoided, she must be accepted among her fellow states as an equal. Proud...
...carelessly crumbling in vice and cruelty. Its population had dropped in 300 years from 12,000,000 to approximately half. The Inquisition had burned 30,000, imprisoned ten times as many. The court aped the worst of France. Duchesses dressed as servants and snooped through the streets or tore their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every day in Madrid except during the Siesta. Across the Pyrenees in France, Voltaire and a Swiss-born...
...been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled through the financial district, police motorcycles chattering in the vanguard. In the rear, street urchins dived after the trampled bonds, tore off the gold seals, stuffed the brightest-colored engravings in their pockets...