Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as if it were yesterday, the Vagabond can see Harvard Square as it seethed with angry rioting students. The resounding thuds of the officers' night sticks, still echo in his ears and drift away to mingle with the sounds of strained intercollegiate relations that once burst forth ringing in his ears far louder than the traditional cry of Reinhart which occasionally floats up from the Yard on the night...
With that rare burst of intelligence which comes now and then even to non-Socialists, Mr. Francis adds, "had . . . this . . . man been distributing Salvation Army propaganda ... he would have been just as liable to arrest, though whether he would have been arrested or not is another question...
Without being too specific, bluff Mr. Thomas implied that somehow or other he had arranged for the flood of orders which has yet to burst. Then, getting back to England, he outlined a ?42,000,000 ($204,120,000) program of unemployment relief. Straightway this was denounced by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George as "unintelligent, pusillanimous, and ineffective!" At Privy Seal Jim the Welshman jibed, "You-ran away to Canada when you should have been here working out a real solution. I am surprised that the Prime Minister...
...stage began to clap. Sharp-eyed, they had seen a swarthy man of medium build enter the once Imperial Box and sink into a back seat where he sat composedly stroking his long, dark moustache. "STALIN!" shouted someone and Comrade jostled Comrade as the audience roared frenzied cheers, then burst spontaneously into the Red anthem, The Internationale. Delirious minutes passed before STALIN would step to the front of the box. Smiling but silent, he took the cheers. He looked thin but well...
...Parliament's bull-of-the-week was made by famed Philip Snowden, crippled, drawn-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. He referred to former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now a mere Conservative M.P.) as "the Prime Minister," then clapped an anguished hand to his forehead as the House burst into goodnatured roars...