Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When she goes to see him in a hospital, she is arrested. In the final scene she marches out in a sweeping black robe in the center of the firing squad leaving her unwitting fiance behind; an ending that is perhaps tactful since myth has it that Mata Hari tore off her clothes, a diplomatic habit of her's, at the last moment...
...that Nero was Trainer Beatty's favorite beast, was the tamest in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Last fortnight Animal Man Beatty was rehearsing his act at Peru, Ind. He cracked his whip over Nero's head. Nero snarled, crouched, sprang. As Trainer Beatty went down sharp teeth tore through the flesh of his leg. Assistants rushed into the cage, whipped the lion away, carried Trainer Beatty off to a hospital...
...Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died in the wreckage, one hand hooked in the ripcord of his 'chute. Builder Walter Beech was later quoted as saying he had warned Jackson not to stunt the ship which was not designed to withstand violent maneuvers...
...months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil tycoon, taken just after Robert Plunkett shot Doheny Jr. dead and killed himself in 1929. Infuriated, Hugh Plunkett tore the prints from the wall, had Proprietor Joe Gotch and five associates arrested. The charge: libeling the memory of the dead...
...Institute was Stanislaw Szukalski. a passionate Pole who had one well executed statue on view. Several years ago he exhibited a piece upon which the jury smiled. He arrived at the exhibition hall next morning, found a little gilt card marked HONORABLE MENTION pinned to his statue. Sculptor Szukalski tore the card in shreds, flung the pieces in the face of a startled watchman and shouted, "You can't honor me!" Last week nobody tried...