Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...
...marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength is now in the North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship of Marshal Chang and other Northern leaders. Last week in Nanking no dainty was too good for the Northern marshal...
Some years ago among newspaper publishers appeared little sparks of resentment against threatened competition from Radio. Puffed upon constantly by the tradepaper Editor & Publisher, those sparks burst into flame last week at the Manhattan conventions of the Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers' Association...
...rumor that the New York World was for sale began buzzing on Park Row as early as 1926. But it was denied so convincingly by those in authority that nearly everyone was astonished when rumor burst forth as fact. Had that not occurred, little attention might have been paid a new rumor: that the thriving Sun and struggling Post might merge. First it was said that the Sun would buy Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. That brought this reply from Vice President John Charles Martin, on the office bulletin board last fortnight: ". . . Mr. Curtis has never sold a property after...
Satisfied, relieved, the police moved on. But next day Rio editors burst out in a tirade against the law, called it silly, praised the Prince...