Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britisher in a blue suit and a wide-brimmed panama hat tore screaming along the ship's rail- leapt, climbed, jostled dignified bankers, evaded pursuit. "Mon-key!" "Monkey!" screamed passengers. "MONKEY!" The Hon. John Jacob Astor ran to his mother, clambered into her lap. He is aged seven. Last week photographers snapped busily Lady Nancy Astor, onetime Virginia beauty, first woman member of the British Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John...
...sooner had "Gaston" Caillaux sat down than numerous "Alfonses" sprang to their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...
...play in which a lumberjack tore the chemise off a young girl and tried forcibly to deflower her. (The Virgin...
...last week the Senate tore its hair, rent the air with cries and filled the Congressional Record with words for the sake of the nation's farmers...
...running race is the oldest form of human athletic game. It is indubitable that barefoot Neolithic sprinters tore through the fields and underbrush in violent competition ages before the laced sandals of Spartan contestants were to be seen pounding along mountain roads in prolonged endurance tests; and the modern spiked shoe is stiil further removed from those vigorous days. The wonder of all this is that each year, each week, produces new records, the old achievements being displaced by reduced time, the most ancient of sports being improved upon with startling regularity...