Word: belches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week, just as the night shift was going down to its subterranean duty, a convulsion shook the galleries, a blast of air rushed up the shafts followed by a belch of hot, black smoke. The night men scrambled back for safety. Some were killed in the tunnels by falling roofs. Some bratticed themselves in offsets and telephoned for help. Then came the deadly "afterdamp" (carbon monoxide...
...Pittston, Pa., where hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
...partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
...oozy dawn of civilization, are Crime and Corruption. They frolic now from Shanghai to Paris, unashamed. Occasionally, they rear their heads up into the light and scare some, shock others. Sometimes they pop up in Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where sprawling factories belch and whistle, where grimy alleys creep between frame hovels, where workingmen need stimulation Saturday nights. The so-called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...