Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pueblo, Col., hawks attacked men working on a church steeple, tore ears, clawed cheeks, pecked polls, forced them to flee. Two detectives, sent in search of the hawks, captured them...
Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first of the 18 sec, tions of her duralumin framework was completely broken, the sixth badly damaged; the outer envelope was spent badly for one-sixth of the distance...
...sooner did Colonel William Mitchell?he that was a General, one of "Pershing's men" who dashed so furiously about France in a special Renault, who tore through bursting skies to combat, who swaggered most gloriously?no sooner did he cease berating the elderly admirals of Washington than other admirals on the Pacific were faced?so the press would have it?with a most embarrassing test...
...personal friend of the exiled family published a story of their distress. Young Otto, said she, had been outdoors playing. He tore his breeches. While they were being mended he was obliged to keep to his bed, for be had but one pair...