Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman scorned, Madam Secretary Perkins met newshawks with tight lips, think," flushed face, burst she, "that pencil-tapping General fingers. Motors "I have made a great mistake, perhaps the greatest mistake in their lives...
...other hand if you would have your imagination stimulated, there was one dinner mentioned which is somewhat reminiscent of the approaching bowling contest to be held in New York City this month. This will show how we have progressed by having the pulchritudinous "Rockettes" from Radio City burst from paper mach bowling balls, whereas the old time English gourmets were satisfied with "little black amores" who leapt lightly out of enormous pies and presented perfumed gloves to the honored guests...
...such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their counterpart in irate bands of the newly-landed Mexican peasantry who burst in upon the gentry and do many a mischief. However, under strong President Cardenas, Mexicans are less & less cutting off each other's ears...
...drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of LIFE, appeared on the stage...
...Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...