Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...European troops captured Peking from which the Court had fled, sacked the nearby Summer Palace. French and British officers burst into one of its rooms, found a self-slain Princess surrounded by five of her faithful little Lion Dogs. These were sent back to England, where one, "Lootie," became the pet of Queen Victoria. An occasional animal smuggled from the Peking Palace kept the English stock from degeneration through inbreeding. The year 1912 in China saw the end of divine sovereignty for Emperors and dogs. Thereafter fresh specimens of the dog were imported more freely to add to the growing...
...falling off an ironing board while pressing his pants. Early this month Gracie simpered the news that her brother had disappeared. The stunt was to find him. Columbia Broadcasting's part lay in letting Burns & Allen wander in & out of other station programs. Amid prearranged confusion they burst in with a flood of stupid questions as to the whereabouts of the daft brother. Audiences loved it. Newspaper colyumists gave it columns of space. And last week Animal Hunter Frank Buck (Bring 'Em Back Alive) joined the nonsensical brother-hunt...
...Lieut. Woodring, 31, had the more spectacular career. Shortly after beginning duty at Selfridge Field, Mich, in 1927 he landed a new-type pursuit plane which he was testing, got out, left the engine running. A brother officer took it up. Hardly had the ship gained altitude when it burst into flame. The officer died. A year later Lieut. Woodring flew with the First Pursuit Group on a goodwill tour of Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps...
...those who made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly...