Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
...Marseille last week Orator Daladier burst out against the Communists in a speech aimed to gather as much support as possible from all other French Parties: "One party can say to me that it always favored an uncompromising attitude, even should that lead to war. . . . That is, the Communist Party! The violence and intransigence of this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate...
...from hanging out the windows to watch French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet as they came & went from the Hotel de Noailles across the street, for Marseille was playing host to the Radical Socialist Party Congress (see col. 3). It was in session when fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case...
Fortunately the No. 1 French Mayor, famed Edouard Herriot of Lyon (220 miles up the Rhone above Marseille), was attending the Radical Socialist Party Congress. Huge Mayor-and-former-Premier Herriot, who looks as though fit to burst with the famed cuisine of Lyon, promptly rang up his city hall, ordered: "Put some of our Lyon fire engines on railway flatcars and rush them here...
Fountains wreathed with water babies, alabastrine goddesses and war groups in battling bronze were the common stuff of U. S. sculpture before Primitivism came in and chiseled its ears off. Lately critics have observed that from that chastening sculptors as a class have emerged with a burst of modest but lively ingenuity. Last spring a new Sculptors' Guild took over a vacant lot in Manhattan. made news with a big outdoor exhibition (TIME, April 25). Last week the Brooklyn Museum's luminous galleries held a more impressive show by the same Guild, whose membership includes the illustrious names...