Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...
Three weeks ago an idea dawned in the minds of the world's silver speculators. Last week it burst full upon them with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem...
Rushing back to Washington, Senator Long burst into the Senate for a round of New Deal name-calling which began with "Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago" and ended with: "Roosevelt desires that there shall be re-inflicted upon [Louisiana] the rottenest, most corruptive form of political debauchery ever known-and I don't mean maybe...
...rocky isle of Saint Anastasia in the Black Sea is Bulgaria's Elba. One dawn last week in Sofia, before the hordes of milch goats were out on the streets, police burst into the homes of two Bulgar would-be Napoleons, dragged them from their beds, gave them each a few minutes to dress, bundled them off to Saint Anastasia...
...most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired...