Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole thing burst, but John Law had long ago sold out and left the country...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
Soon the experienced Marshal burst into a passionate address in the tempo of Friends, Romans, Chinamen...
Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather...
...week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...