Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff with fright-fright of what farmers might be saying by their kitchen stoves. As a matter of fact, farmers, still stunned by the Supreme Court's decision, had not recovered enough to say anything more...
...independent Liberal backing could not support Gomez, if the regular Liberal Party put up any other candidate. Summoned in haste to advise Cuba, Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds told the Liberals to choose between Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned...
...stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones showed through, blood burst from the bitten tongue and lips of the victim, and, expelled from his lungs, dribbled through his nostrils and ears. ... To be flogged through...
...repertoire, sung by any popular singer, means a crowded house, money in the till. Last week for the first time in four years the stage was set for the Bizet opera. Soldiers and cigaret girls filled the square when suddenly a fiery bushy-haired creature appeared on the parapet, tore down the steps, pushed her way to the footlights. Soprano Ponselle's wish had come true...
During the course of one experiment, a few of these miscreants wrung the necks of 12 chickens in a neighboring cage, tore down all electric light fixtures, and released a dozen or more iliblended creatures by rolling up the chicken wire on the cages. Two days later found the monkeys in the seclusion of Franklin Park...