Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, you mean? Oh, fine," Vag mumbled. "Sorry to burst in on you like this--Say, who are you, anyhow...
...orchestra glided dreamily into the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. A little man stood up, gave the Nazi salute, shouted: "Verboten!" The orchestra switched to My Hero, from Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier. Up sprang the little man again. The orchestra burst into Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The little man jumped up for the third time, screamed "Verboten...
...insurrection in Galicia, supported by German guns, would burst out, and Poland would suddenly be faced with the alternative of surrender or war. If Poland (plus France and Russia) went to war with Germany, there is at least a 50-50 chance that Germany would win. Britain, having shown little interest in any further Eastern European developments, might choose to sit this war out with Italy. The Balkans might sit it out with Hungary, which is being Nazified as fast as Hitler can do it. Hitler's Push to the East thus has a pretty good chance of pushing...
While the Faculty Council at Harvard was announcing that the study of English grammar and composition will be made much more intensive as a requirement for freshman classes, Teachers College at Columbia burst into print yesterday with a story to the effect that a course in the "Technique of Fresh Water Angling" is to be added to the curriculum of that institution--which already has courses in poultry raising, baseball and piano tuning...
...ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over the cut of the tails. Actually two of the men were in dinner jackets. The girls . . . were mostly small and often pretty, could be divided into two lots: those that danced seraphically with their eyes closed, in the middle of the room obviously with their favorite partner...