Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the ceremony, in burst some belated cameramen who demanded and obtained a second performance. Next came the cinema cameramen, and after them the movietone men. At the last, Mr. Baker protested. "There'll be no sound out of me." Secretary Good started for the door, echoing: "There'll be no sound out of me!" General Summerall agreed to reread the citation, however, and once more Mr. Baker, mum and miserable, was declared "of inestimable value...
Senor Arturo del Toro returned to Manhattan from Mexico City last week, and, seated in his chambers at No. 36 Park Ave., smiled sagaciously at the lurid resurgence of publicity that burst forth on his arrival...
...threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole...
...years the Feast of the Blessing of the Waters has come to be one of the events of the Florida season. Unable to find seats in the small frame church of St. Nicholas, they clustered about, listening to the ardent chants of the Greek Orthodox liturgy that swelled inside, burst passionately on the sunny tranquillity of midmorning. Archbishop Alexander, head of the church in all the New World, had come from New York to preside at the ceremonies...
While the voting was in progress, William Randolph Hearst's scarehead newspapers burst one morning upon the street with rabid appeals not to make an Anglomaniac the Bishop of New York. The shock of this insolence caused a revulsion in Dr. Manning's favor, and he was speedily elected to the high office of Cathedral Heights...