Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago another eccentric fi burst forth upon the world from Newburyport. He was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, 34, a hard-boiled red-headed Irishman with close-set eyes, a screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation...
...Harvard Dramatic Club made a felicitous choice for their fall production. The play, progressing evenly from beginning to end, is dramatic more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...
...Lake Forest home of William Hamilton Mitchell, wealthy Chicago investment banker (Mitchell, Hutchins & Co.), a group of socialites dined, among them Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., Mr, 6 Mrs, William McCormick Blair, Mrs, Louise de Koven Bowen Phelps, Ralph Mines, About 11 p. m. five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper...
From all these things Widow Rockne has derived satisfaction. From some she has realized profits to support her four children. Last week more satisfaction & profits headed her way. A new car was ready to burst forth. Its name: The Rockne Six. Its maker: a subsidiary of Studebaker Corp. Its sales chief: George M. Graham, previously sales manager for Willys-Overland, assisted by Frank L. Wiethoff. Its production manager and engineer: R. A. Vail and R. C. Cole, who were in charge of the same departments in Dodge Bros, before it was absorbed by Chrysler...
...harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful princess but the Erskine cow had no more inclination for weddings than Composer Gruenberg had had for projecting his score over or even on a level with the Erskine book. There being no profound emotions to express, Composer Gruenberg made...