Word: burgeons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...
...London, smart art is shown in the Leicester Galleries. During the season its walls burgeon with the works of socialite portraitists, sporting artists, caricaturists, sculptors. For an artist, a show at the Leicester is like making a good club. Last week the Leicester Galleries gave the first British showing of the wash drawings of Curtis Arnoux Peters, the New Yorker's slick, sexy "Peter Arno." The show was reviewed by that stuffiest of papers, the ultra-conservative Morning Post which promptly compared Arno's work to the line drawings in Punch. All honors went to Artist Arno. Wrote...
...paper dared criticize what the Government was doing in China. While the General Staff met to discuss the advisability of sending an army to Shanghai, that inevitable accompaniment of every war, the Atrocity Story, began to burgeon in the Tokyo Press. (A Chinese had eaten a Japanese baby, etc. etc.) The Foreign Office published an official statement insisting that not a shot had been fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message...