Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
...should be remembered as perhaps the greatest coalition campaign in U. S. history, beginning with the revolutionary Hoover nomination. Unaided if not opposed by the leaders in the powerful States-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and most of the farm States-the nomination virtually tore the G. O. P. apart and put it together again with new adjustments, relations and elements. Without a very genuine popular demand it could not have been done. The same factor was, ultimately, the fundamental strength of the Hoover campaign. The unity within the G. O. P. at the campaign...
...When I came here 42 years ago, things were different. The first Monday of the year was 'Bloody Monday'. The upper classmen went after the Freshmen, tore their clothes, kicked their hats around, and spread the pieces in the Square. Then I can remember a bon-fire in the Yard made from a collection of gates which had been removed from neighborhood hinges...
...purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore her clothes, beat her, threw her out of the automobile. As Mrs. Neumann started to walk back to Paris she distinctly heard a laugh as the gigolo's automobile disappeared in the shade of the St. Germain woods...
Vivid panorama of a violent age, when Fox tore himself from the dicing tables to champion in Parliament the American Colonies...