Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the night. Vag, wandering down Holyoke Street, stopped short in his tracks. Screams of women and shouts of men could be heard coming from the innermost recesses of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. A man of action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...
Scarcely half an hour went by before the big doors to the balcony over the Palazzo's main entrance were opened. Out stepped the familiar figure of Benito Mussolini, their leader, followed by Achille Starace, the Fascist Party Secretary. The shouts burst into a deafening roar. Up went the raised arm of II Duce in acknowledgment. Up spoke Signor Starace through loud speakers commanding all to salute Italy's empire builder...
...banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined up finally in the form of a cross. Easter week...
Ever since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin 39 years ago, President Dixon has been making locomotives -first with American Locomotive Co., since 1916 with Lima. At 61 he is portly, neat, given to anecdote (Sally Rand's bubble once burst and landed in his lap; he swears "it wasn't my cigar that broke it"). An engineer who tinkers in his own machine shop in the cellar of his East Orange, N. J. home, he is also a good salesman, a rabid Republican. His chief irritation is that the view from his Manhattan window includes...
...fruit and cotton fields for mere crusts of bread. As Ma and their sometime preacher Casy say, it is only their anger that keeps them on their feet. The ranch owners thereby store up for themselves the ripening grapes of wrath that seem bound to ferment and burst into a fury of action by the people...