Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Welfare Island (off Manhattan), one Rev. Joseph J. McGowan saw a victim of sleeping sickness, one Amiel Schul, jump into the East River. The priest gave his spectacles to a young man who volunteered to guard them, tore off his overcoat, leaped into the water, saved the life of the gurgitating Schul. On shore, surrounded by congratulators, he looked around for his glasses. They had been stolen...
...Bronx, New York City, Paul Duminuco, boss plasterer, strode through the echoing white chambers of a new building examining work of his underlings whose $4,500 payroll he carried in a satchel. As he clumped about on the third floor, strong hands seized him from behind, tore the satchel from his grasp, bound his wrists with wire. Cruel hands sloshed wet quicklime into his eyes, jammed wet mortar into his protesting mouth, flung him into a closet with his eyeballs sizzling, his teeth and tongue fast setting into their mortar plug. . . . Some hours later, Joe, laborer, rescued, doctors revived poor...
...accident resulting in Mme. Samaroff's new engagement was a fall which tore a ligament in her left shoulder. A long series of concert engagements, including a White House musicale on Feb. 4, was canceled...
...Brickley tore off sixty yards and kicked a goal as well: Eddie Mahan went around the end and gave the Elis hell: O'Brein pasted Rafferty, assisted by Mike Shea: Kilpatric fook Tom Shevlin's place and messed...
Oberlander, Dartmouth's battering, loping Swede, led a running attack that tore Cornell apart for a total of 252 yards, with a score of 62 to 13-the worst beating ever given a Cornell team. Said Critic Grantland Rice: "If Dartmouth can carry on its march against Chicago, it will be ranked as one of the greatest teams of the last ten years...