Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China and Spain have jockeyed for preferred position on the world's front pages for nearly a month, and up to last week China has had the upper hand. The Chinese war was a new upheaval; it burst squarely in the correspondents' laps; there was virtually no censorship to plague the press. Shanghai was a Richard Harding Davis dream, and newspapers pushed the good luck while it lasted. Combining enterprise with luck, the Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront...
Horse Sleeping Sickness. A dramatic demonstration of just how useful a veterinarian can be and how badly an animal can need him burst on the convention while it was still sitting. In Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Maryland and Virginia an epizootic† of sleeping sickness broke out among horses. Hundreds of horses drooped their heads, leaned against their stall walls, collapsed into the straw, died. Some, excited by the nervous effects of the disease, banged their heads against the stalls, died trying to run on their sides. A vaccine against this disease, which is also called equine encephalomyelitis...
...feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible. But they are likely to admit that his people are real human beings, that his mountains are really cold, his deserts really hot enough to cause camels to go mad, to make stones look as though "they must burst and bleed away...
...Manhattan, Mayor LaGuardia, father by adoption of a young daughter, burst into a fine Italian rage, summoned his commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...
What critics chiefly noted, aside from, an extremely wide range of merit, was a truce in the bitter factionalism which has characterized Chicago art since modernism first burst upon it in 1913. No one was heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club...