Word: blurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still on the job was Mr. Jones when the Barber of Seville opened last fortnight. A vociferous audience moved him to this curtain blurt: "We're bringing great art here. Our grandfathers did. We hope you like...
...early '20s, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell let the blasphemy roll off his curly tongue-and wrecked a brilliant military career. Admiral Sims, who had a beard and a social background, uttered sacrilegious sentiments about air power and was not struck down, but the bodacious blurt did him no good with his brother Navy men. Since their brash days, no active service man has publicly peeped on the forbidden subject...
...drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they got a good look, they saw four torpedoes, two glassed-in turrets housing twin machine guns. Then she was gone, a bellowing little boat that faded into the grey rain. Now & then another one would blurt past...
...that the President was waiting to spring something -he pursed his lips, stretched his big cheeks and rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter to three!" When the laughter subsided...
...When is the big laugh, the coarse, loud laugh, the harsh laugh of Americans going to blurt out and fill the world...