Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grotesque a vandalism. Grandly and sheepishly, Lord Leverhulme offered a public apology. The incident did not improve Painter John's opinion of soap manufacturers; had the plutocrat who addressed a request to him last week been such a one, Augustus John would doubtless have roared as he tore the message into shreds...
Therefore, at the funeral of M. Graf, strong peasant hands seized the bodice and skirt of his widow, tore them off, flung her naked into his open grave, and pelted in dirt...
...under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting: "We were born under this flag and we want no other...
When the cinema became packed to absolute repletion, some 3,000 women who could not squeeze in grew vexed, rioted, knocked off the helmets of several policemen and mirthfully tore to shreds the tunic of an embarrassed police sergeant...
...CRIMSON leading five to four a committee of impartial judges consisting of the two teams decided to call the game a tie. Immediately the CRIMSON team carried the gallant Princetonian moundsman off the field while the ambidextrous and reversible battery of the CRIMSON collected by the remaining Princetonians tore up the sidelines still confident in their ability to keep their heads...