Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 6.000 Fascists in brown uniforms were attempting to parade through Red Altona. Altona Communists betook themselves to the housetops. Suddenly a burst of rifle & pistol fire poured down into the Fascist parade. Brownshirts broke ranks, dashed into the houses to attack the snipers. Altona's hopelessly outnumbered police force signalled loudly for help. Even with reinforcements from Hamburg, rioting continued until after midnight. Armored cars blazed away ruthlessly. Police attacked with rifle, pistol, hand grenade, tear gas. Communists swarmed out of their tenements and tried to build barricades. Five dead bodies were picked up in the streets. From...
...deal of driving into the players ahead, club-throwing after bad shots, teeing-up-on-the-fairway, kicking the ball in the rough, cursing, gouging of divots. But even public links golfers know that automobiles should not drive across golf courses. One afternoon last week, when a car suddenly burst through some shrubbery and went careening across the Cherry Ridge links in Elyria, Ohio, scores of public linksmen, hurrying around to get through before dinner, grew righteously, furiously indignant...
...moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split...
...immediately aware of the fact that the book is going to be extraordinarily interesting. Next comes the tragedy of a mutual misunderstanding and sordid politics--Wilson vs. the people, followed by the Big Red Scare, bombs, strikes, riots, supper-patriots, ending with an unparalleled burst of brutal intolerance and monstrous bigotry. There is an excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface...
...Cupo boasted that he would willingly drink grain alcohol neat. Host John Boccalupo gave his guest a tumbler of alcohol. Gulping it down, John Cupo gasped, gagged, sputtered and finally spewed it out on the floor. Shaking with laughter Host Boccalupo tossed a lighted match at John Cupo, who burst into flames, was severely burned...