Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council took up once more the five-year-old Transylvanian land dispute between Rumania and Hungary. Just as some progress seemed about to be made, last week, Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu burst into tears, and threatened to withdraw if pressed to make concessions. Matter postponed to the 50th Council session next June...
...entering new realms. What started in the first act as one of the innocuous little duds so often hurled by Mr. Goodwin suddenly exploded, and Mr. Goodwin became the ex-Registrar. Act II was a banquet of condolence at Worcester. Tragedy was shoved off the boards by a triumphal burst as friends acclaimed in Mr. Goodwin the next Governor of Massachusetts. He neither accepted nor vetoed the proposition definitely; but he hinted at favor if the people so willed. No astrologer is needed to prophesy that Goodwin vs. Fuller will be the main contest at the Republican primaries this fall...
Father Burns was pale and nervous now, fidgeting with his grey moustache. Without waiting to be asked, he burst...
...fake had been effected, not forgetting to stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking Walter Winchell, columnist to the pornoGraphic, gumchewers' sheetlet, alone had the grace, in this second and even less justified burst of free advertising, to praise that rakish, lean and sporting sheet, the New York Telegraph; its reporter had entirely disregarded the melodramatic antics of poor Mlle. Roseray...
Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...