Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournament when chunky Manuel Andrada, captain and back, sprained his mallet-hand in an early match. They ran into more of the bad luck that always seems to follow Argentine poloists in the U. S. when their No. 1, Alfredo Harrington, fell at a polo pony show and tore his leg muscles. Andrada took his arm out of its sling, moved Andres Gazzotti up to No. 1, left mustachioed Juan Reynal at No. 2, in front of his brother, Jose...
Died. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, 65, in Flatow, Germany. He was a cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II who once boxed his ears, tore the decorations from his uniform, banished him from the army and Germany for beating Princess Louisa Sophie (his wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession...
...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...
...police brought in Oliver and wrung a confession from him, the first of four lynching attempts occurred. Escaping the mob at Ypsilanti, the three were taken to the Ann Arbor jail, where a fresh mob gathered, tore at the prisoners' clothes, clawed their faces, cried for their blood. Reinforced by carloads of men from Ypsilanti, the crowd surged around the insecure jail, shouting: ''Lynch them! Burn them!" The three cowering men were rushed into automobiles and whisked to the court house where Judge George W. Sample was waiting. Said Judge Sample: "I feel like...
...young men from the hills of Leitrim and neighboring counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command...