Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montes Claros in the state of Minas Geraes, Vice President Fernando Mello Vianna and a party of Conservative orators arrived to campaign for the coming Presidential elections (March I). Minas Geraes is a Democrat stronghold; the Conservative campaigners were greeted with a burst of gunfire from Democrat sympathizers. Five people were killed, 16 wounded, and Vice President Mello Vianna received three bullets in his neck. Wired Brazilian Minister of Justice Vianna do Castello: VIOLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN RIFE IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAES SINCE LAST OCTOBER HAS NOW CULMINATED IN A SERIOUS POLITICAL INCIDENT. I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION...
Applause such as is rarely heard burst out in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week. The occasion was a Boston Symphony concert. The heroes: Russian Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past...
...pleases but in trying to make others do what one pleases. Be that as it may, this genial writer can't help offering suggestions for others to read anymore than he can refrain from bouncing in delightedly on some unsuspecting lecture which offers the unusual. Besides he hasn't burst into print for a long time and probably won't again until this serious business of guiding his youthful adherents into entertaining classrooms begins again...
Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...
...Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road. In revenge for the death of Constable Abraham came the peremptory arrest of 20 Samoan Chiefs, the ordering of the cruiser Dunedin to Apia, and Prime Minister Ward's threat of a still "firmer...