Word: burring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worthy of special note is the bur lesque Third Cabin advertisement which is illustrated by a page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...
...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...
...garb-old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Bur-ges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor, its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well of that most difficult of arts...
...Bur, Mr. Hazard, we would like it very much to dine with...
When gay dogs get together there is apt to be noise. Last week 2,261 of them got together in Madison Square Garden, and the occasion was not a quiet one. Yaps filled the air, woofs, yowls, basso bur-wurs and tender tenor barks. Dogs were benched in neat interminable rows, undergoing the attentions of their henchmen or staring with melancholy eyes upon the crowd. Bitches sulked in their wire boudoirs. It was the Golden Jubilee show of the Westminster Kennel Club...