Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building of the House of Representatives than from the conning tower of a submarine." He returned to Congress, his cudgel up for the Navy...
...Bulldog grunted and tore its way viciously around the Yale Bowl to win a smashing, heart-breaking game 14-10. The Bulldog scored suddenly in the first four minutes and again in the second period. From then on he was savagely on the defensive; turning back in the final period three separate desperate lunges on the threshold Of his own goal. In the last three minutes the game was apparently lost when a forward pass floated over the Bulldog's goal into enemy arms. But the play was not allowed as the enemy was out of the end zone...
...mighty Alps great, dense, blue-black clouds discharged their heavy burdens of warm rain for many hours. Snow and ice became water as the endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...
...allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door.' There she raised an outcry, tore her clothing, and rushing out on the street to a woman she called her mother, screamed that Jones had assaulted her. . . . Jones at first failed to realize that he had been victimized by . . . the . . . 'badger game.' " A scandal ensued and the sailor left Russia...
...onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience to their seats. Then the Judge rapped for order. Ann Harding, as Mary Dugan, accused of murdering her paramour, was ushered into court. The trial was on. The dull courtroom walls fairly trembled as attorney for the defense and district attorney tore out confessions of shame, innocence, guilt. Gradually the weight of evidence shifts in favor of the defense and when the final curtain falls, the audience, appealed to through the three acts as a Jury, not only knows what verdict to render but also understands what made Mary Dugan take...