Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel it is time for me to burst into your letters columns. I see on page 7 of your issue of Nov. 12 an item which quotes my father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied...
Hearty newsvendor cheers burst forth as Lord Lee resumed his seat. Then as Mr. Houghton rose the assemblage stilled, mouse quiet. Perhaps words of moment to the Peace of the World were about to fall. Ponderously the American Ambassador drew a folded sheaf of papers from his breast pocket, smoothed them, cleared his throat, adjusted his tortoiseshells and began to read: ". . . seize with pleasure this occasion to express my profound respect for the British press . . . admirable tone, balance and sense . . . the American press partially superseded by the use of radio during our national campaign . . . auspicious occasion . . . heartfelt thanks...
...supposedly polite dinner party, a Mrs. Keith turns savagely upon her female guests, stating that one of them is her husband's mistress. Someone, it is true, has been making amorous advances through the shrubbery about the house; but, with a sudden burst of self-sacrificial solemnity, Mr. Keith's heir falsely insists that the figures seen en route to furtive passions were those of himself and one of the suspected women's housemaids. This precipitates a semi-tragic interruption of the endearments which had hitherto been passing between the Keith scion and a nice young girl...
...Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel family would sell control of" "General Motors of Germany" to General Motors of the U. S. Angry nationalists...
Post-election week brought a renewed burst of financing. Among new issues...