Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
Some time ago Braggart Matsuda surpassed himself in the august presence of the Genro (Elder Statesman) Prince Saionji, supreme arbiter of Japanese politics and chief adviser to the Throne. With a twist of phrase Mr. Matsuda implied equality between himself and Prince Saionji, caused the Genro to burst out laughing...
...Chicago, Rosita Royce danced one night in the Streets of Paris without her fig leaf, explained to a judge: "The wind blew it off." Sally Rand danced onto a theatre stage holding a big rubber "bubble" between herself and the audience. The bubble burst. To Mary Belle Spencer, crusading attorney who had Sally arrested, newshawks showed a picture of her half-naked 14-year-old daughter holding a trophy won in a bathing beauty contest. Said Mary Belle Spencer...
...would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...
...speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends in a burst of action and heroism...