Word: torning
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...Senate, its nerves torn by spies and bomb threats, frothed at the White House scare. Some Senators had the feeling that President Hoover was trying to stir up more public hostility against the Senate, to create the impression that Congress was on a spending spree. Up rose Virginia's sharp-tongued Carter Glass to declare...
...pummeled. Knives flashed. Fire engines clattered up. Hose lines were connected. The mob was washed away. Behind it was left trampled Sol Jagoda with a broken back, trampled William Lux with a fractured skull, many hats, fragments of clothes, splatters of blood. Inspector Matowitz had had his coat tails torn off. Three policemen were hurt, eight mobsters arrested...
...hundred Harvardmen, excited by their hockey team's 4 to 3 victory over the Boston University Club, took possession of two cars on a Boston-Cambridge subway train. Having smashed windows, put out lights, torn down advertising posters, ripped out bell-cords, they were reported to the Cambridge police by frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope...
...around the poet's properties. The farmer objects on the ground that he has a right of way. The poet is willing to accede to the farmer's objection. But the wife hires the lawyer, goes to court, defeats the farmer, who later dies of apoplexy. Finding his marriage torn asunder, the poet departs along the road while his wife seeks solace with the lawyer...
...frieze and architraves. Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens. A hundred years ago Lord Elgin stole great masses of the sculpture for the British Museum in London, to save them from "local vandalism." Byron berated him. The Greek Government, belatedly renascent, is now reconstructing the torn Parthenon in the semblance of its periclean perfection...