Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though no committee of Congress had yet begun hearings on it, the great debate on President Roosevelt's proposals to reform the Judiciary and, incidentally, to alter the Supreme Court, last week burst prematurely open in full Senate. First Tennessee's windy McKellar, then Arizona's courtly Ashurst, with interpolations by thunderous Majority Leader Robinson, shook the air with preliminary salvos. Reason: even before the historic Supreme Court Battle of 1937 began, the Administration was losing ground...
...took cocaine. Better informed observers guessed at benzedrine, a non-narcotic stimulant (TIME, Sept. 14) which reputable Dr. Morris Henry Nathanson of Los Angeles last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested would be an excellent aid to crammers, sprinters and others who need a sudden burst of energy. Last week's news from Berlin showed that the Olympic phenomena, at least in the case of the Germans, may have been due to nothing more subtle or deleterious than bicarbonate of soda...
...some of Vienna's mellow evening taverns, danced and sipped sour wine in one until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams to London was secured and Austrian papers scare-headed that he had "ordered sent out from England the magnificent white horse on which he used to ride as King and Emperor." Actually the Duke had telegraphed an order for some whiskey, "White Horse...
...Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From...
...faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness of the heavens...