Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear & trembling most of Montreal went about repeating Samuel Butler's words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been...
...possibility of seeing Joan Crawford in a South Sea setting, as the "painted" woman in a tropical "cloud-burst of passion," is enough to bring the average moviegoer hustling to the theatre. The picture "Rain" will take care of his emotions,--faculties be damned. But when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play...
...Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire...
...appointed for the march on the House of Commons, uniformed police and plainclothesmen from Scotland Yard quietly converged upon the Workers' Movement headquarters in Russell Square near the British Museum. The detectives entered the dingy headquarters building, burst in upon "Wal" Hannington who was talking with a newshawk. Unresisting, Hannington submitted to arrest for inciting a mutiny, was jailed without bail in Bow Street station...
...announcement that fifty-one committees; including over five hundred members, are to visit the various departments of Harvard, may give the impression of a sudden burst of publicity, of throwing open the arcana, as it were to the nation at large. The names of the visitors from an imposing list; it is almost a roster of the better known graduates and contains as well a number of people who are only holders of honorary degrees, or who are not in any way connected with Harvard University...