Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell sternly denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni and friends burst into print, flaying Justice Russell for an impertinent flouter. Later a Supreme Court Justice granted the name-change, rebuked Justice Russell. Justice Russell, rebuked, said that investigation had convinced him C. C. N. Y.'s "bunch" was "but a minority," thanked C. C. N. Y.'s faculty...
...Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always English ballads. A son, Arthur Gibb, attends Cambridge. A daughter. Dorothy Frances, is at Skidmore College...
...stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated...
BOOM! POW! CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...
...field near Eesen, Belgium, fortnight ago a peasant looked up from his spring radishes to see the Imperial Airways liner City of Liverpool suddenly burst into flames and crash like a meteor in a field, twelve passengers and the crew of three dying instantly (TIME, April...