Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smoke Clouds. Near Stuttgart, Germany, guns spit up bombs; the bombs burst in air and from them spread wide layers of smoke clouds. Flyers in planes could not see terrain or buildings below the smoke. The device seemed a good protection to the Germans against an inimical air attack...
...inland. Fifty miles west of Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three...
...group of minor reporters one figure emerged as dimly familiar. The name, it seems is Grouse. He was greeted by a kindly burst of applause from a warm-hearted audience and he received at least one telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
...tremendous burst of journalism followed. Pictures of the unhappy couple were shown in the Evening composo-Graphic. For postures which the two twins would not or could not adopt, chorines were employed. The surgeon who proposed to divorce the pair, one Francis Pantesco Watson, was interviewed by reporters. The Graphic's circulation jumped 40,000, because its readers were delighted with this ingenious tale of romance and deformity...
...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...