Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience at the Salle Builler. Soon police swarmed 'round this innocuous auditorium. When the meeting came to order, its chairman smilingly gestured at empty air and introduced "Our honored leader." A voice...
...still the Chamber of Commerce, which, representing Business, is supposedly loyal to the Coolidge Administration, cried out for a $400,000,000 reduction. Last fortnight President Coolidge burst out angrily and called the Chamber of Commerce "absurd" in its insistance (TIME...
When The Plough and the Stars, by Sean O'Casey, a hodcarrier, was given in Dublin there were more screams of libel, more bloody noses. The play tells of the Easter rebellion of 1916 when English machine guns shot holes in a fiery burst for Irish freedom. Some of the characters are patriots; some of them are drunken philosophers; one is a chubby prostitute in scarlet silk. The story tells the stark sorrow of a young bride whose patriot husband dies from the bite of English bullets. She loses her baby; loses her mind...
...this & that as eagerly as anyone else, President Coolidge experienced a genuine burst of temper and indignation when, last week, President Pierson and the Chamber again called for a $400,000,000 tax cut. President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that...
...hands of speculators last week. Many bushels were sold but fluctuations were not wide and the price closed for December delivery at 1.24 ¾. Canadian farmers rushed grain to ports to beat deliveries of U. S. growers, and storage elevators of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railroads nearly burst to accommodate receipts. In one day Canadian Pacific elevators accepted 4,454,425 bushels exceeding all previous records...